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title: The Jungle Book, part 12 — The Jungle Book · full text with trees · page 2
description: The Jungle Book, part 12, «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “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
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# The Jungle Book, part 12 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/101/) — Look out for yourselves!”
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/102/) — Limmershin told me that never in his life--and Limmershin sees ten thousand big seals fighting every year--never in all his little life did he see anything like Kotick’s charge into the nurseries.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/103/) — He flung himself at the biggest sea catch he could find, caught him by the throat, choked him and bumped him and banged him till he grunted for mercy, and then threw him aside and attacked the next.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/104/) — You see, Kotick had never fasted for four months as the big seals did every year, and his deep-sea swimming trips kept him in perfect condition, and, best of all, he had never fought before.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/105/) — His curly white mane stood up with rage, and his eyes flamed, and his big dog teeth glistened, and he was splendid to look at.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/106/) — 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!
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/107/) — Don’t tackle your father, my son!
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg236/12/108/) — He’s with you!”

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