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Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands

Note 29 — Chapter XVI · AMONG THE CHINESE.

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"Mr. Chuang, hearing this, at once got up to see, Who the sorrowing mourner could possibly be, When he saw a young woman fanning a grave. Her 'three-inch gold lilies'[29] were bandaged up tight In the deepest of mourning—her clothes, too, were white.[30] Of all the strange things he had read of or heard, This one was by far the most strange and absurd; He had never heard tell of one fanning a grave.

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