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Updated: June 24, 2025
"We had such a good time at the rabbit drive," said Payuchi. "And such a big feast afterwards, nearly as good as last night," said Gesnip. "Tell me about the rabbit drive," said Cleeta, squatting down beside the children in front of the fire. "It was in the big wash up the river toward the mountains," began Payuchi.
"It was in the afternoon, with the wind blowing from the ocean, and all the men who could shoot best with bow and arrow, or throw the spear well, stood on the other side of the wash." "Father was there," said Cleeta. "Yes, and many others," said Payuchi. "Then some of the men and all of us boys got green branches of trees and came down on this side of the wash. Nopal started the fire.
"Mother said he would bring big blue ones with hard little seams down their sides," said Cleeta. Meantime the boats drew nearer. They were of logs hollowed out until they were fairly light, but still seeming too clumsy for safe seagoing craft. In each were several men.
Payuchi, Gesnip, Cleeta, and their little four-year-old brother, Nakin, gathered about the basket, helping themselves with abalone shells, the small holes of which their mother had plugged with wood. "Isn't father going to have some first?" asked Payuchi, before they began the meal. "Not this time; he will eat with Sholoc and the men when the fish are ready," replied his mother.
She was fleet of foot, but the incoming breakers from the bosom of the great Pacific ran faster still; and the little Indian girl was caught in its foaming water, rolled over and over, and cast upon the sandy beach, half choked, yet laughing with the fun of it. "Foolish Cleeta, you might have been drowned; that was a big wave. What made you go out so far?" said Gesnip, the elder sister.
Cleeta ran to the basket and looked in. "I should think there were too many for us to carry," she said, as she tried with all her strength to lift it by the carry straps. "What will you do with them; throw some back into the water?" "No, I don't like to do that," answered her sister, frowning, "for it has been so long since we have had any.
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