Larger	The Game of Words Author: Willard R. Espy
	Book Information Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Book Type: Unknown Binding Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9780448011967 - ISBN-10: 0448011964 Publication Date: 1972 Pages: 279 Book Reviews

Housebreak your words while they are still too young to know better. When you take one for its exercise, curb it, or the neighbors will become angry. Be considerate but firm. Teach you words to sit, lie, stay, fetch. Reward them for obedience and cleverness with a dog biscuit or, in the case of catty works, with a sardine. You may be one of those persons whom words frighten. If so, never let them know it. The instant you shrink back, they will rush at you and take a piece out of your trouser leg. Thereafter, they will ignore your commands. But if they respect you, they will like you, and if they like you, there is nothing in their power that they will not do for you. For a few rare people they not only roll over and play dead, but walk on their hind legs. For an even tinier number, they soar up to the Heaven and play angel, or God himself. This book is a friendly salute to the utterly unimportant Game of Words. Since you will go on playing this game, willy-nilly, as long as you live, you may as well learn to relax and enjoy it. From the Introduction to The Game of Words and on the back of the book.