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He is a man as will come up'ards, right side up, sir? Mr Chollop winked again at the other citizen. 'He should have his right side very high up, if I had my way, said Mark. 'As high up as the top of a good tall gallows, perhaps.
'No stakes, no dungeons, no blocks, no racks, no scaffolds, no thumbscrews, no pikes, no pillories, said Chollop. 'Nothing but rewolwers and bowie-knives, returned Mark. 'And what are they? Not worth mentioning! The man who had met them on the night of their arrival came crawling up at this juncture, and looked in at the door. 'Well, sir, said Chollop. 'How do YOU git along?
I do not insist on his admitting that Hannibal Chollop was as great a hero as Hannibal, or that Elijah Pogram was as true a prophet as Elijah.
Elijah Pogram was far more fantastic than his satirist thought; and the most grotesque feature of Brick and Chollop was hidden from him. The really strange thing was that Pogram probably did say, 'Rough he may be. So air our bars. Wild he may be. So air our buffalers, and yet was a perfectly intelligent and public-spirited citizen while he said it.
'If this ain't Mr Chuzzlewit, ain't it! exclaimed the visitor 'How do YOU git along, sir? Martin shook his head, and drew the blanket over it involuntarily; for he felt that Hannibal was going to spit; and his eye, as the song says, was upon him. 'You need not regard me, sir, observed Mr Chollop, complacently. 'I am fever-proof, and likewise agur.
It is suggested that he showed America as full of rowdy bullies like Hannibal Chollop, or ridiculous wind-bags like Elijah Pogram, while England was full of refined and sincere spirits like Jonas Chuzzlewit, Chevy Slime, Montague Tigg, and Mr. Pecksniff. If Martin Chuzzlewit makes America a lunatic asylum, what in the world does it make England? We can only say a criminal lunatic asylum.
Mr. Hannibal Chollop, if I recollect aright, once shot an imprudent stranger for remarking in print that the ancient Athenians, that inferior race, had got ahead in their time of the modern Loco-foco ticket.
'I have draw'd upon A man, and fired upon A man for less, said Chollop, frowning. 'I have know'd strong men obleeged to make themselves uncommon skase for less. I have know'd men Lynched for less, and beaten into punkin'-sarse for less, by an enlightened people. We are the intellect and virtue of the airth, the cream of human natur', and the flower Of moral force. Our backs is easy ris.
Quilp had slightly different ways of surprising their families; Mr. Pecksniff by playfully observing 'Boh! when he came home; Mr. Quilp by coming home at all. But we can form no picture of how Mr. Hannibal Chollop playfully surprised his family; possibly by shooting at them; possibly by not shooting at them. We can only say that he would rather surprise us by having a family at all.
I HAVE gone ten foot, in a circ'lar di-rection, but that was for a wager. 'I hope you won it, sir, said Mark. 'Well, sir, I realised the stakes, said Chollop. 'Yes, sir. He was silent for a time, during which he was actively engaged in the formation of a magic circle round the chest on which he sat. When it was completed, he began to talk again.
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