. The jungle book. youever saw, and they balanced on the ends of theirtails in deep water when they were nt grazing,bowing solemnly to one another and waving theirfront flippers as a fat man waves his arm. Ahem ! said Kotick. Good sport, gentle-men ? The big things answered by bowing andwaving their flippers like the they began feeding again Kotick saw thattheir upper lip was split into two pieces, thatthey could twitch apart about a foot and bringtogether again with a whole bushel of seaweedbetween the splits. They tucked the stuff intotheir mouths and chumped solemnly. Mess
. The jungle book. youever saw, and they balanced on the ends of theirtails in deep water when they were nt grazing,bowing solemnly to one another and waving theirfront flippers as a fat man waves his arm. Ahem ! said Kotick. Good sport, gentle-men ? The big things answered by bowing andwaving their flippers like the they began feeding again Kotick saw thattheir upper lip was split into two pieces, thatthey could twitch apart about a foot and bringtogether again with a whole bushel of seaweedbetween the splits. They tucked the stuff intotheir mouths and chumped solemnly. Messy style of feeding that, said bowed again, and Kotick began to lose histemper. Very good, he said. If you do hap-pen to have an extra joint in your front flipper 162 THE JUNGLE BOOK you need nt show off so. I see you bow grace-fully, but I should like to know your split lips moved and twitched, and theglassy green eyes stared ; but they did not speak. Well! said Kotick, you re the only people. rfs^^^^si^a HE HAD FOUND SEA COW AT LAST. I ve ever met uglier than Sea Vitch — and withworse manners. Then he remembered in a flash what the Bur-gomaster Gull had screamed to him when he wasa little yearling at Walrus Islet, and he tumbledbackward in the water, for he knew that he hadfound Sea Cow at last. The sea cows went on schlooping and grazing,and chumping in the weed, and Kotick asked THE WHITE SEAL 163 them questions in every language that he hadpicked up in his travels; and the Sea People talknearly as many languages as human the Sea Cow did not answer, because SeaCow cannot talk. He has only six bones in hisneck where he ought to have seven, and theysay under the sea that that prevents him fromspeaking even to his companions; but, as youknow, he has an extra joint in his fore flipper,and by waving it up and down and about hemakes what answers to a sort of clumsy telegraphiccode. By daylight Koticks mane was standing onend and his temper was go
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