A man is shouting "bring out yer dead" as he walks with a cart pushed by dirty ragged men that seem barely more alive than the dirty ragged corpses in the cart.
The street is wet and muddy and the peasants are muddy and wet.
One man tries to put an old, but definitely alive, man onto the dead cart.
The man running the show says he can't take him because it's against regulations, but a swift club to the head fixes that problem.
Then Arthur and Patsy gallop by—by which we mean skipping and banging coconuts.