Sentence:  "Mr. Miller". They are not very nice whom they <WSD>chum up</WSD>? / "Boot." Not very; they would as soon <WSD>chum</WSD> you <WSD>up</WSD> as anybody else. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To initiate (a new prisoner) through a ritual involving beating him with sticks and swords, accompanied by music, to extort money from him.<ref>John Camden Hotten, "A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words", London, 1859, p. 21.[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011564672]</ref>