`` Well , I would feel easier about it if Whiskers-on-the-moon were not living in the Glen . They say he was seen going through strange manoeuvres with a lantern in his back yard one night lately . Some people think he was signalling . '' `` To whom -- or what ? '' `` Ah , that is the mystery , Mrs. Dr. dear . In my opinion the Government would do well to keep an eye on that man if it does not want us to be all murdered in our beds some night . Now I shall just look over the papers a minute before going to write a letter to little Jem . Two things I never did , Mrs. Dr. dear , were write letters and read politics . Yet here I am doing both regular and I find there is something in politics after all . Whatever Woodrow Wilson means I can not fathom but I am hoping I will puzzle it out yet . '' Susan , in her pursuit of Wilson and politics , presently came upon something that disturbed her and exclaimed in a tone of bitter disappointment , `` That devilish Kaiser has only a boil after all . '' `` Do n't swear , Susan , '' said Dr. Blythe , pulling a long face . '' ` Devilish ' is not swearing , doctor , dear . I have always understood that swearing was taking the name of the Almighty in vain ? '' `` Well , it is n't -- ahem -- refined , '' said the doctor , winking at Miss Oliver . `` No , doctor , dear , the devil and the Kaiser -- if so be that they are really two different people -- are not refined . And you can not refer to them in a refined way . So I abide by what I said , although you may notice that I am careful not to use such expressions when young Rilla is about . And I maintain that the papers have no right to say that the Kaiser has pneumonia and raise people 's hopes , and then come out and say he has nothing but a boil . A boil , indeed !
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