The narrator tells us that he thinks that the fish likes to be silly, and that he wants to be like the fish. He tells the fish to swim by himself, and to follow him to pick something to nudge him. The narrator thinks that this is a silly idea, because the fish will get scolded for being so silly in the past, when he was disobedient. He also thinks that if the fish does not have a new ducky, he will not be able to use the ducky anymore. He asks the fish why he didn't get a new one when he asked his father for one, and the fish replies that he had to ask his father to give him another one because the first one would leak air, and since the second one will leak air as well, the fish had to give it to him.