you shall be battered, you shall be flayed, you
shall be smashed.«
    The present effect of this flight of oratory - much admired for its general
power by Mr. Chadband's followers - being not only to make Mr. Chadband
unpleasantly warm, but to represent the innocent Mr. Snagsby in the light of a
determined enemy to virtue, with a forehead of brass and a heart of adamant,
that unfortunate tradesman becomes yet more disconcerted; and is in a very
advanced state of low spirits and false position, when Mr. Chadband accidentally
finishes him.
    »My friends,« he resumes, after dabbing his fat head for some time - and it
smokes to such an extent that he seems to light his pocket-handkerchief at it,
which smokes, too, after every dab - »to pursue the subject we are endeavouring
with our lowly gifts to improve, let us in a spirit of love inquire what is that
Terewth to which I have alluded. For, my young friends,« suddenly addressing the
'prentices and Guster, to their consternation, »if I am told by the doctor that
calomel or castor-oil is good for me, I may naturally ask what is calomel, and
what is castor-oil. I may wish to be informed of that, before I dose myself with
either or with both. Now, my young friends, what is this Terewth, then? Firstly
(in a spirit of love), what is the common sort of Terewth - the working clothes
- the every-day wear, my young friends? Is it deception?«
    (»Ah-h!« from Mrs. Snagsby.)
    »Is it suppression?«
    (A shiver in the negative from Mrs. Snagsby.)
    »Is it reservation?«
    (A shake of the head from Mrs. Snagsby - very long and very tight.)
    »No, my friends, it is neither of these. Neither of these names belongs to
it. When this young Heathen now among us - who is now, my friends, asleep, the
seal of indifference and perdition being set upon his eyelids; but do not wake
him, for it is right that I should have to wrestle, and to combat and to
struggle, and to conquer, for his sake - when this young hardened Heathen told
us a story of a Cock, and of a Bull, and of a lady, and of a sovereign, was that
the Terewth? No. Or, if it was partly, was it wholly, and entirely? No, my
friends, no!