Stevenson's writings are lively and entertaining because he took pains to choose from his great stock of words just the right ones to enable us to share his pleasures with him. The government employee who described Plymouth Rock chickens so accurately surely did not lack for words.

Did you ever start out to describe or explain something or to tell a story and find that you could not think of words to express just what you wanted to say? We all have had this experience, and it shows that we have need of a larger working vocabulary.