Phaulcon the Adventurer Or the Europeans in the East a Romantic Biography
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A variety of vegetables are scattered in his presence, and a cow being brought in, whatever she first eats is pronounced likely to be scarce, and the people are advised accordingly. For the origin of this mummery, it seems to me to have 212 PHAULCON IN OFFICE. no deeper meaning than had similar exhibitions in Europe, during the middle ages, and under the most despotic governments, when the people were permitted at a certain season of the year to burlesque their betters with impunity. For instan...ce, when the Lords of Misrule held temporary sway. Bowring, however, thus philosophizes : " The whole farce is probably intended to throw scorn upon popular influences, and reconcile the subjects to the authority of a real king ; for the reality of the royal authority of a Monarch of Siam is a fact not to be mistaken, and may well be contrasted with the doings of a temporary impostor. " 213 CHAPTER XIII. KING HOP. TOWARDS evening the next day the Barcalon went to Phaulcon's apartments, taking with him the habiliments of a Christian priest ; hut upon examining them and finding that the gown was hooded, he said " What are these things ?
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