carefully sprinkled it through the small opening at the top of the aquarium. Slowly, the fish food dropped all over the aquarium. But the two fishes simply looked at it and did not swim to catch and eat it.

            "I'll tap the glass once more, maybe they'll swim once again," Allan said and carefully tapped the glass walls.

            But the two fishes remained still on the pebbles. From inside the tank Raffy noticed the sadness in the faces of the two young boys. But Raffy was too sad to care. He closed his eyes and lay on his side on the pebbles.

           "Allan the flying fish is dying!" was the worried statement of Ryan looking at Raffy resting on his side. "What have we done? Maybe we should just release them back to the sea."