He is yet in the kitchen.

[My Good Babushka]

In Anthony Copley’s “Wits, Fits and Fancies” 1595: One said to a little child, whose father died that morning, and was layd out in a coffin in the kitchen- ’“Alas, My pretty child. Thy father is now in Heaven”. The child answered, ‘Nay, that he is not, for he is yet in the kitchen".

An Irish Wake- 1883 print from a sketch by M. Woolf