At midday, Roy walked back to the barn where he found a safe place to keep the book. He then made his way to the house to give back the basket. The family had returned and changed into older clothes, but they were not working. They were running around the field playing a game with a small leather ball about the size of a baseball that had a two-foot-long red ribbon attached to it. Roy watched, ascertaining that it was a game much like baseball, except with a little wrestling thrown in. It didn't take him long to quickly learned the basics of the game. The goal was to carry the ball to each four corners of the field in either a clockwise or counterclockwise order depending on which team you were on. You had to do so while the other team tried to tackle you to the ground and take the
