> if someone could actually afford a ball Round here, in the olden days the kids would fashion a crude type of ball called "basse" by cutting up a broken bicyc

> if someone could actually afford a ball Round here, in the olden days the kids would fashion a crude type of ball called "basse" by cutting up a broken bicycle inner tube into a bunch of small rings, threading all the rings on a piece of string and tying this mess up in a particular way to form a roughly spherical object. It does not roll well at all, but the kids stand around in a circle and kick the basse around to each other, trying to keep it in the air. If you cause it to fall to the ground, you lose.