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Through lack of diversion the boatswain began to feel inclined to hector somebody, so cried sternly to the man in question: "Hi there, chawbacon!" The man on the locker turned about turned nervously, and much as a bullock turns. That is to say, he turned with his whole body. "Why have you gone and put yourself THERE?" inquired the boatswain.
Whenever I read any argument upon immortality it always seems to me remarkably cogent, if the souls in question were your soul and my soul; but just consider the transparent absurdity of supposing that every Hodge Chawbacon, and every rheumatic old Betty Martin, has got a soul, too, that must go on enduring for all eternity! The notion's absolutely ludicrous.
For example, there is the agricultural labourer caste the Hodge Chawbacon of urban humour, who in his military avatar also reappears as Tommy Atkins, a little transfigured, but at bottom identical the alternative aspect of a single undivided central reality.
'I don't care, you're the same: you're not one of us; nor if you spent fifty years among us, would you understand us. 'Come over and see me in Berkshire, Kearney, and let me see if you can read our people much better. 'From all I hear, there's not much to read. Your chawbacon isn't as cute a fellow as Pat. 'He's easier to live with.
The characterisation of "Recruits" is excellent, from the smart young officer to the rustic awkwardness of the two recruits, and the more dangerous self-approval of the third; behind we see a chawbacon grinning at the scene, beneath the portentous sign of "The Old Fortune," with its painting of a wooden-legged and armless veteran.
The methods of the Salvation Army do not appeal to the dilettante; but it is more than possible that the grandchildren of the man whose imagination has been touched, if ever so slightly, by the crude appeal of trombones out of tune and the sight of poke-bonnets and backward-striding maidens, will be more intelligent and susceptible human beings than the grandchildren of the chawbacon whose mental horizon has been bounded by the bottom of his pewter mug.
We have spoken of the admirable way in which Mr. Cruikshank has depicted Irish character and Cockney character; English country character is quite as faithfully delineated in the person of the stout porteress and her children, and of the "Chawbacon" with the shovel, on whose face is written "Zummerzetsheer." Chawbacon appears in another plate, or else Chawbacon's brother.
The "Barmaid" collar is the double collar, at that time just coming into fashion. "Chaw," short for Chawbacon. "Tique," ab. for arithmetic. "Tique-beaks" are mathematical masters. To "sky," i.e. to charge and overthrow. In the Harrow game a boy may turn and kick the ball into the hands of one of his own side.
'I contend for it that all our civilisation is higher, and that class for class we are in a more advanced culture than the English; that your chawbacon is not as intelligent a being as our bogtrotter; that your petty shopkeeper is inferior to ours; that throughout our middle classes there is not only a higher morality but a higher refinement than with you.
Nothing can be more narrowing than rustic existence there are old yokels whose lives have always moved within a four-mile radius, women who have grown gray without ever knowing what lay beyond the blue hills that girdled their native village. I once knew a chawbacon who came to town and was barked at by a street-dog.
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