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The
storm
shall
not
wake
thee
,
nor
shark
overtake
thee
,
Asleep
in
the
arms
of
the
slow-swinging
seas
!
Seal
Lullaby
All
these
things
happened
several
years
ago
at
a
place
called
Novastoshnah
,
or
North
East
Point
,
on
the
Island
of
St.
Paul
,
away
and
away
in
the
Bering
Sea
.
Limmershin
,
the
Winter
Wren
,
told
me
the
tale
when
he
was
blown
on
to
the
rigging
of
a
steamer
going
to
Japan
,
and
I
took
him
down
into
my
cabin
and
warmed
and
fed
him
for
a
couple
of
days
till
he
was
fit
to
fly
back
to
St.
Paul
's
again
.
Limmershin
is
a
very
quaint
little
bird
,
but
he
knows
how
to
tell
the
truth
.
Nobody
comes
to
Novastoshnah
except
on
business
,
and
the
only
people
who
have
regular
business
there
are
the
seals
.
They
come
in
the
summer
months
by
hundreds
and
hundreds
of
thousands
out
of
the
cold
gray
sea
.
For
Novastoshnah
Beach
has
the
finest
accommodation
for
seals
of
any
place
in
all
the
world
.
Sea
Catch
knew
that
,
and
every
spring
would
swim
from
whatever
place
he
happened
to
be
in-would
swim
like
a
torpedo-boat
straight
for
Novastoshnah
and
spend
a
month
fighting
with
his
companions
for
a
good
place
on
the
rocks
,
as
close
to
the
sea
as
possible
.
Sea
Catch
was
fifteen
years
old
,
a
huge
gray
fur
seal
with
almost
a
mane
on
his
shoulders
,
and
long
,
wicked
dog
teeth
.
When
he
heaved
himself
up
on
his
front
flippers
he
stood
more
than
four
feet
clear
of
the
ground
,
and
his
weight
,
if
anyone
had
been
bold
enough
to
weigh
him
,
was
nearly
seven
hundred
pounds
.
He
was
scarred
all
over
with
the
marks
of
savage
fights
,
but
he
was
always
ready
for
just
one
fight
more
.
He
would
put
his
head
on
one
side
,
as
though
he
were
afraid
to
look
his
enemy
in
the
face
;
then
he
would
shoot
it
out
like
lightning
,
and
when
the
big
teeth
were
firmly
fixed
on
the
other
seal
's
neck
,
the
other
seal
might
get
away
if
he
could
,
but
Sea
Catch
would
not
help
him
.
Yet
Sea
Catch
never
chased
a
beaten
seal
,
for
that
was
against
the
Rules
of
the
Beach
.
He
only
wanted
room
by
the
sea
for
his
nursery
.
But
as
there
were
forty
or
fifty
thousand
other
seals
hunting
for
the
same
thing
each
spring
,
the
whistling
,
bellowing
,
roaring
,
and
blowing
on
the
beach
was
something
frightful
.
From
a
little
hill
called
Hutchinson
's
Hill
,
you
could
look
over
three
and
a
half
miles
of
ground
covered
with
fighting
seals
;
and
the
surf
was
dotted
all
over
with
the
heads
of
seals
hurrying
to
land
and
begin
their
share
of
the
fighting
.
They
fought
in
the
breakers
,
they
fought
in
the
sand
,
and
they
fought
on
the
smooth-worn
basalt
rocks
of
the
nurseries
,
for
they
were
just
as
stupid
and
unaccommodating
as
men
.
Their
wives
never
came
to
the
island
until
late
in
May
or
early
in
June
,
for
they
did
not
care
to
be
torn
to
pieces
;
and
the
young
two
-
,
three
-
,
and
four-year-old
seals
who
had
not
begun
housekeeping
went
inland
about
half
a
mile
through
the
ranks
of
the
fighters
and
played
about
on
the
sand
dunes
in
droves
and
legions
,
and
rubbed
off
every
single
green
thing
that
grew
.
They
were
called
the
holluschickie
--
the
bachelors
--
and
there
were
perhaps
two
or
three
hundred
thousand
of
them
at
Novastoshnah
alone
.
