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- Narrator: The land of the bouncing Basques - sportsmen extraordinary of Europe. They are a different people, living in the Pyrenees Mountains, partly in southern France, partly in northern Spain.
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- Narrator: The greatest players are the bouncing Basques - with their handbaskets of wicker, they go throughout the world, bringing with them the wild and handsome vigor of a people who turn almost every workday task into some form of play, some form of Basque sport.
- Narrator: Their rugged games are the invention of a rugged, outdoor people. Basques are, like all mountain people, farmers, sheep raisers and lumberjacks. Almost everything they do is turned into some form of sport.
