All the population was yelling and screaming `` Clam-eater ! Stareek -LSB- old man -RSB- ! '' while Sea Vitch rolled from side to side grunting and coughing . `` Now will you tell ? '' said Kotick , all out of breath . `` Go and ask Sea Cow , '' said Sea Vitch . `` If he is living still , he 'll be able to tell you . '' `` How shall I know Sea Cow when I meet him ? '' said Kotick , sheering off . `` He 's the only thing in the sea uglier than Sea Vitch , '' screamed a Burgomaster gull , wheeling under Sea Vitch 's nose . `` Uglier , and with worse manners ! Stareek ! '' Kotick swam back to Novastoshnah , leaving the gulls to scream . There he found that no one sympathized with him in his little attempt to discover a quiet place for the seals . They told him that men had always driven the holluschickie -- it was part of the day 's work -- and that if he did not like to see ugly things he should not have gone to the killing grounds . But none of the other seals had seen the killing , and that made the difference between him and his friends . Besides , Kotick was a white seal . `` What you must do , '' said old Sea Catch , after he had heard his son 's adventures , `` is to grow up and be a big seal like your father , and have a nursery on the beach , and then they will leave you alone . In another five years you ought to be able to fight for yourself . '' Even gentle Matkah , his mother , said : `` You will never be able to stop the killing .
XXXXX and play in the sea , Kotick . ''
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