Albert goes by many names. The longest is “Grand Poobah of the Ancient and Venerable Order of Floor Lickers.”
He licks the floor a lot. We don’t know why. Sometimes it’s obvious that we spilled something. Sometimes he just licks, and licks, and licks.
Apparently the sooty fire poker (actually a small shovel that lost its, well… shovel) met his “standards” for licking as well.
