Old Sea Catch , his father , saw him tearing past , hauling the grizzled old seals about as though they had been halibut , and upsetting the young bachelors in all directions ; and Sea Catch gave a roar and shouted : `` He may be a fool , but he is the best fighter on the beaches ! Do n't tackle your father , my son ! He 's with you ! '' Kotick roared in answer , and old Sea Catch waddled in with his mustache on end , blowing like a locomotive , while Matkah and the seal that was going to marry Kotick cowered down and admired their men-folk . It was a gorgeous fight , for the two fought as long as there was a seal that dared lift up his head , and when there were none they paraded grandly up and down the beach side by side , bellowing . At night , just as the Northern Lights were winking and flashing through the fog , Kotick climbed a bare rock and looked down on the scattered nurseries and the torn and bleeding seals . `` Now , '' he said , `` I 've taught you your lesson . '' `` My wig ! '' said old Sea Catch , boosting himself up stiffly , for he was fearfully mauled . `` The Killer Whale himself could not have cut them up worse . Son , I 'm proud of you , and what 's more , I 'll come with you to your island -- if there is such a place . '' `` Hear you , fat pigs of the sea . Who comes with me to the Sea Cow 's tunnel ? Answer , or I shall teach you again , '' roared Kotick . There was a murmur like the ripple of the tide all up and down the beaches . `` We will come , '' said thousands of tired voices . `` We will follow Kotick , the White Seal . '' Then Kotick dropped his head between his shoulders and shut his eyes proudly . He was not a white seal any more , but red from head to tail . All the same he would have scorned to look at or touch one of his wounds .
A week later he and his army -LRB- nearly ten thousand holluschickie and old seals -RRB- went away north XXXXX the Sea Cow 's tunnel , Kotick leading them , and the seals that stayed at Novastoshnah called them idiots .
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