_ Yes, most of it.
_The King._ Well.
_The Kaiser._ Well.
_The King._ What do you think about it?
_The Kaiser._ Not very much. Lots of other people have had ultimatums and
haven't been one pfennig the worse for them.
_The King._ Oh, but this is the very last thing in ultimatums. It's a
regular ultimatissimum.
_The Kaiser._ What do they want you to do?
_The King._ All sorts of disagreeable things. For instance, I am to move my
troops to the Peloponnese, so as to get them out of harm's way.
_The Kaiser._ Well, move them. What are troops for except to be moved
about? You can always move them back again, you know. I keep on moving
troops forward and backward all the time. It's a mere nothing when you once
get accustomed to it. Just you try it and see. Anything more?
_The King._ Yes; I'm to release from prison the followers of the
pestilential VENIZELOS.
_The Kaiser._ That's unpleasant, of course, for a patent Greek War-Lord;
but I should do it if I were you, and then you can let me know how it
feels.
_The King._ Look here, William, I don't know what's the matter with you,
but I wish you wouldn't try to be so funny.
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