Cock Serega on our steam ship did not tell his wife Lucy that he was a ship cook. The flowing "sea of overseas navigation" was quite pleasant to her and she did not show further curiosity.

Once, in the pre-New Year mess, the dispatcher port put our ship on the MorVoxal with almost free passage to the shore.

Seregina’s wife came to visit her husband on a steam boat, where she struck him nose to nose. He was in a high crimped cap and a cooking white jacket. Having seen her husband, Lucia was amazed, for a moment shakenly silent and, having translated the spirit, asked, "Do you know how to cook?"