Yet honestly, half my fellows might easily serve as models to any literary cheapjack of the moment.
"The Altar Steps"
Compton MacKenzie
The word "chap" takes its derivation from the Anglo-Saxon ceap price or bargain, and ceapean, to bargain, whence come the words "chop," to exchange; "cheap," "Cheapside," "Mealcheapen Street" in Worcester, "cheapjack," etc.
"Grain and Chaff from an English Manor"
Arthur H. Savory