"Because this here Edwin was at the bottom of it?" Morris inquired.
"That's what the Kaiser said," Abe replied.
"Maybe he also caught the poor Czar selig eating with his knife or something," Morris suggested.
"That he didn't say, neither," Abe answered, "but he might just so well have said it, for all it would go down with me, Mawruss, because we all know how kings sow their rolled oats, Mawruss, and any king which wouldn't associate with any other king on the grounds of running around the streets till all hours of the night or gambling, y'understand, if that ain't a case of a pot calling a kettle, I don't know what is."
"And I suppose he topped off them lies by getting religious, ain't it?" Morris remarked.
"Naturally," Abe said. "And in particular he got very sore at the Freemasons on account of them being atheists."
"That's the first time I hear that about the Freemasons," Morris observed. "I think, myself, that he was getting them mixed up with the Elks."
"The Elks ain't atheists," Abe said.
"I know they ain't, but at the same time they ain't religious fanatics exactly," Morris said, "which to a particular feller like the Kaiser would be quite enough, Abe."
"Also, Mawruss," Abe went on, "he claims that the Freemasons is all Bolshevists, and in fact, from the way he carried on about the Freemasons, you would think he was crazy on the subject."