The Mourners (dolefully):

Honourable mandarin gone west,

Welly sick belly and pain in chest,

Silly fellow leave off winter vest,

No can facee breeze.

First catchee chicken-pox, then get croup,

Double pneumonia, and off he poop:

Chop-suey, Laichee, Birds-nest-soup,

That’s good stage Chinese.

(They go out with their melancholy burden.)