“You have never seen one of our ball games?”
“No.”
“Then you know very little about it?”
“Only what I have heard of it.”
“How many in your party?”
“Nine.”
“It can be played with nine on a side, but it is better with fifty on a side.”
“Whew! Fifty? Why, that’s a small army!”
“The game does not resemble a game of ball in the least.”
“I have heard so.”