That night in the forec's'le Tom was telling them how he got the word
of the Jeffries-Johnson fight.
"I sights her smoke to the west'ard, the sun just risin'. But it came
to me that mebbe a great steamer like her wouldn't like it to be held
up by a couple o' Grand Bank trawlers in a dory, an' I mentions that to
Jack there, but Jack says: 'You know how they all want to know aboard
the vessel, 'specially the cook.'"