The Old Game by Samuel G. Blythe is an insightful reflection on how to live a life of abstinence from alcohol. Excerpt: "In a few minutes it will be three years and a half since I have taken a drink. In six years, six months, and a few minutes it will be ten years. Then I shall begin to feel I have some standing among the chaps who have quit. Three years and a half seem quite a period of abstinence to me, but I am constantly running across men who have been on the wagon for five and ten and twelve and twenty years…"