CHARACTERIZATION

I

Learn from real life. Don't go by the spelling. Don't overdo the dialect.

'E carried me away

To where a dooli lay,

An' a bullet come an' drilled the beggar clean.
'E put me safe inside,

An' just before 'e died:

"I 'ope you liked your drink," sez Gunga Din.

2

Sergeant Buzfuz began by saying that never, in the whole course of his experience, never, from the very first moment of his applying himself to the study and practice of the law, had he approached a case with such a heavy sense of the responsibility imposed upon him.

3

I'm a walkin' pedestrian, a travelin' philosopher. Terry O'Mulligan's me name. I'm from Dublin, where many philosophers before me was raised and bred. Oh, philosophy is a foine study! I don't know anything about it, but it's a foine study!

4

It is de ladies who do sweeten de cares of life. It is de ladies who are de guiding stars of our existence. It is de ladies who do cheer but not inebriate, and, derefore, vid all homage to de dear sex, de toast dat I have to propose is, "De Ladies! God bless dem all!"

5

What tho' on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin' gray, an' a' that;

Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine -
A man's a man, for a' that.

For a' that, an' a' that,

Their tinsel show, an' a' that,

The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that!

6

A keerless man in his talk was Jim,
And an awkward hand in a row,
But he never flunked, and he never lied,
I reckon he never knowed how.

He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing, —
And he went for it thar and then;
And Christ ain't agoing to be too hard
On a man that died for men.