Help me with these last questions please!

What is dialogue and how do you correctly punctuate it in a narrative?

What did the study in nicaragua show about the connection between language and numbers, and how does language enable one to understand numbers?

Read the excerpt from "mending wall." we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. what does the line “and some are loaves and some so nearly balls” refer to?