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Updated: May 25, 2025
We read in the narrative of the ambassador of Louis XIV at Siam, at the end of the seventeenth century, the following passage "A mountebank at the court of the King of Siam climbed to the top of a high bamboo-tree, and threw himself into the air without any other support than two parasols.
"Li'l boy like you!" she rippled, "li'l boy like you! Merrit San him so long when he make Japanese bow he come down from top like big bamboo-tree so!" Putting her hands high above her head, she bent till the tips of her fingers touched the floor. Still bent, she twisted her head till her eyes, bright with laughter, looked straight into Merrit's. He lifted his eyebrows quizzically.
You get the trouble with that old gentleman if you have not the careful." Then I say: "Next time I give him little money and make big smoke with incense," and he say, "Yuki, you very good girl." Just by temple's side is little bamboo-tree which have very nice story. One good god he like this bamboo, and he like the beautiful love.
As soon as the bird had answered the Buso, it flew off to another bamboo-tree, and there the Buso spied it, and knew that he had been fooled; and he said, "It's a man I want; you're just a bird. I don't care for you." Directly then the Buso began to smell around the ground where the man had started to run up the mountain-side, and, as quick as he caught the scent, he trailed the man.
He was followed by 'Twin Sisters, who, as 'Refined Singers and Dancers, appeared in sweeping confections of white silk, with deeply drooping, widely spreading white hats, and long-fringed white parasols heaped with artificial roses, and sang a little tropical romance, whose burden was 'Under the bámboo-trée, brought in at unexpected intervals.
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