Percy Jackson: Interview Outline: Section 4 Driving rabbits to capture them Tape Reference Number: H2002-09-14 Percy Jackson talks with Bill Schneider and Eileen Devinney in Kiana, Alaska on January 28, 2003.

Bill Schneider: Well, let's talk about the rabbits, and driving rabbits.

Percy Jackson: Yeah. We -- that's what we used to do long time ago, drive rabbits.

Bill Schneider: Uh-hum.

Percy Jackson: When there's a narrow place in those willows.

Bill Schneider: Uh-hum.

Percy Jackson: Some old people used to put net there, hang the net straight across, and hide behind the net there. And lots of guys would drive them down to that, toward the net. Every time when that rabbit hit the net, they just run over and grab it and pull the heart out. It's easy to pull that heart, if you know how to do it. Before they start hollering, they used to do that. Cause when they heard that rabbit holler, them rabbits wouldn't go there. They would go in different direction.

Bill Schneider: Hmm.

Percy Jackson: Lots of fun driving rabbits. Only a few guys used that net. Us, we use rifle. Take two or three guys way on the end and let them shoot. After we drive rabbits, we used to race home. And when you're last one, you pick lots of rabbits. Load up with rabbits, what they drop.

Bill Schneider: Oh.

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