(from Play in Education by Joseph Lee, 1916) if you will watch a child playing, I think the first thing you will be struck by will be his seriousness. Whether he is making a mud pie, building with his
blocks, playing ship or horse or steam engine, or marching as a soldier to defend his country, you will see, if you watch his face, that he is giving his whole
mind to the matter in hand, and is as much absorbed in it as you become in your most serious pursuits. Or if the dolls are sick and the children are taking
their temperature, sending for the doctor, and administering those strange and awful doses which the ailments of dolls seem so generally to call for you
will find that these are serious matters, and that nothing is more offensive than to intrude upon such ceremonies with flippant or unadvised speech.
So also with the sports of a later period. To say that baseball is serious is to understate the case. Football commands a devotion rarely evoked in any less
strenuous pursuit. What a boy lies awake about is probably not his spolling or arithmetic, but his chance of getting on the team. Anxiety on other subjects,
where it exists, usually arises from apprehension of what others may think or do. His deep and absorbing interest is in his games
The seriousness of play is shown in the standard of effort and achievement that it holds up. The strictest schoolmaster of the old nose-to-the-
grindstone school never secured the whole-hearted effort that is seen on the ball field overy afternoon. A small boy throws a ball so as to curve in
a way which a few years ago was thought to be impossible, another hits it with a round stick, while a third urchin in the distance runs as fast as he can
and catches it. When you consider how little of the course of the ball the third boy saw before he started to run, and take into account-or better still
experience the other difficulties involved in the whole performance, you will realize that such feats, though soen every day on every ball field, are
somewhat remarkable. At least things equally difficult done by boys in their arithmetic lessons would be considered so.
From the sentence in bold, what can you tell about how the author fools about the topic?

A. He believes that children are often rude

B. He feels that playtime can be useful

C. He thinks that playtime is a waste of energy

D. He believes that baseball is not a fun sport