We 're busy here . '' Kotick made his dolphin-jump in the air and shouted as loud as he could : `` Clam-eater ! Clam-eater ! '' He knew that Sea Vitch never caught a fish in his life but always rooted for clams and seaweed ; though he pretended to be a very terrible person . Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas -- the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins , who are always looking for a chance to be rude , took up the cry , and -- so Limmershin told me -- for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet . 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 .
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