The document contains short excerpts from three different works. The first is about a young lift operator who was fined for throwing a passenger out of the lift. The second describes how George Bernard Shaw had never spoken in public before attending a meeting and felt nervous. The third excerpt is from Gandhi discussing feeling it was cowardly to be absent from or silently vote in an important discussion.

1. PROSE AND POETRY
FOR
UNDER GRADUATES
Edited by
The u.G. board pf studies in english,
Manonmaniam sundaranar university,
Tirunelveli.

2. On saying `please’ – A.G. gardiner
• The young lift-man in a citand was fined for
the offence office who threw a
• Passenger out of his lift the other uand was
undobtedly in the wrong.

3. How I Became A public speaker-
G.B.Shaw
• When I went with lecky to the Zetetical
meeting I had never spoke in public.
• I knew nothing a bout public meeting or their
order. I had an air of impudence, but was
really an arrant coward, nervous and self –
conscious to a heartbreaking degree.

4. Shyness My Shield
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Meantime a serious question came up for
discussion. I thought it wrong to be absent,
and felt it cowardice to register a silent vote.
The discussion arose somewhat in this wise.