A Fish Named Yum by Mary Elise Monsell

Author:Mary Elise Monsell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media

A Fish Named Yum

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Chicago was hit hard by a blizzard that had frozen pipes and closed schools. Buses ran late. Snowplows buried cabs. And more snow was on the way.

It was a bad day to be out. But it was a good day to be inside Smiling Sally’s Diner on Monroe. Mr. Pin was helping Sally bake chocolate chip cookies. He tasted every batch that came out of the oven. Along with her cinnamon rolls, the cookies were beginning to make Sally famous.

In fact, Sally’s cookies were so good that truckers took bags of them on long trips. The word about Sally’s cookies was spreading fast. A businesswoman said Sally should sell them to stores and call them “Famous Shamus” cookies after Mr. Pin.

“It’s a good idea, except who would know that a shamus is a detective,” Sally had said. “But I’ll think about it.”

Besides eating, Mr. Pin spent much of the morning hand-feeding chocolate chips to his fish named Yum. Since the fish had popped out of the basement during the great Chicago flood, the diner had become his home. There was only one problem. Yum was a picky eater. He refused to eat regular fish food. He ate only the chocolate chips Mr. Pin hand-fed him. Not only that, they had to be fresh chips from Luigi’s Pasta Shop. Luigi sold only the best pasta and chocolate. Mr. Pin knew that. And Yum knew that. They had something of … an understanding.

So at the height of the blizzard, when Yum ran out of sustaining food and Sally ran out of her secret ingredient, there was only one thing to do. Mr. Pin headed into the storm.

It was a mission of chocolate. An appointment with destiny. A time when only the brave or the desperate faced the perils of Chicago’s snowbound streets.

Mr. Pin fought the swirling, blinding snow several blocks down Monroe to Luigi’s. Speed on dry land was not Mr. Pin’s specialty. But he naturally loved the cold and made up some time by tobogganing down snowbanks … beak first.

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