"Why don't we give them better tools?" Billy Kasker asked.
"What have they got coming?" Joe Buckner exclaimed. "They lost, didn't they?"
"Yes, but—"
"If you had your way you'd be sucking in and helping the side that lost. Pretty soon you'd discover you had lost!"
"Hardly that," Billy Kasker replied. "But it seems more human—"
"Human? That's a laugh!" Joe Buckner slapped his thighs and roared with laughter.
"Come along," the instructor said.
"Look—there are children playing games!" Susan Sidwell observed. "Horrible-looking little brats, aren't they?" She pointed to a group of brown-skinned youngsters playing some kind of a game that involved a ball and a club. One threw the ball, the second struck at it with the club.
"What a stupid way to play," Joe Buckner said.