峰尖兒上 He Sat On The Point
行者到邊前，把尾巴掬一掬，跳上去，坐在峰尖兒上。叫道：「鑽風，都過來。」那些小鑽風在下面躬身道：「長官，伺候。」行者到边前，把尾巴掬一掬，跳上去，坐在峰尖儿上。叫道：「钻风，都过来。」那些小钻风在下面躬身道：「长官，伺候。」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim went up to it, gave his tail a tuck, sprang up and sat himself on the very point of the peak.
尾巴 takes an unstressed second syllable unaided. 掬一掬 is one gathering-up — the numeral inside the doubled verb again — and what he is gathering is the tail the disguise does not cover. Then he sits on the point of a fifteen-metre spur, which is a throne.
He called, "Borers of the Wind, come over here, all of you."
都過來 is the whole company, over here — an order given by somebody who has held the rank for about four minutes. 鑽 is zuān, the verb band, throughout this scene.
The Little Borers of the Wind bowed from below. "Officer, at your service."
在下面躬身 — bowing from below, which is where the geography has put them. 伺候 is to attend on, to wait upon; as an answer it is simply at your service. Four hundred demons have accepted a promotion nobody issued.
The staging is the joke. Pilgrim climbs the highest thing available, sits on the point of it, and calls the company to assemble below — and they come.
The tail is the detail that keeps it honest. He has to tuck it before he jumps, because the disguise covers clothes, banner and bell and not the one thing that would give him away.
And the bow from below settles the question of whether the forgery worked. It did not merely pass; it has produced deference.