Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-04-05
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DUNES favor.
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firing and indomiiable energy asa walk
er and hunter and 1 proposed to Her
bert 20 tackle him in the field, and that I
could make a match between them for
several hundred dollars. Herbert readi-
~ assentod to il and stated that endur-
ance was also his great forte afield-
stating further, that if a match was
made he would like to take half OF the
wager, and that the only stipulation he
would insist upon was, that in case he
lost, his expenses to Virginia for him
self and dogs should be paid, which I
considered a reasonable proposition.
Baker had been the sheriff of Fauouier
county, but, at this time, he was the pro-
prietor Of the Warrenton Hotel. at War
renton and also during the summer
season, running the famous Fauquier
White Sulpher Springs.
After my last letter from Herbert, nv
visit TO Warrentou, at this time, was
solely for the purpose of concentrating
this shooting match" and which was
effected. IL was made for $3.50 a side. a
two days shoot, TO be shot, side bv side.
the greatest number OF birds bagged.
legitimately shot on the wing. to decide
the winner. Nothing was said about a
forfeit, as it was deemed important. As
judges, Mr.. Arthur Payne. father of the
late Gen. VIM. II. Payne, and Billy Hor-
ner were selected, and Capt. Robert
Carter was chosen as a referee to decide
any disputed points.
wrote Herbert from Warrenton. de-
failing everything connected with the
match and informing him that it was to
be shot the 4th and 9Th Of December.
and asking him what day should meet
HIM in Winchester, or nearest railroad
station.
In accordance with appointment. I
met him in Winchester-mv first sight
OF him, and was most agreeably impress
ed, finding him most pleasant and de-
lightful gentleman-afTable and cordial.
and, as | was prepared, from my previ-
Gus correspondence with him, together
with his published writings, TO expect a
most intelligent one. He was accom-
panied by pair of magnificent English
settlers, orange and white.
At that day we had never heard of the
Llewellins or Laveracks, and our dogs.
both settlers and pointers, were only
natives, though their breeding had been
kept pure from time immemorial. The
Dulanys, ofFauquier county, who owned
considerable property in England, would
occasionally import some bird dogs for
themselves and their friend, Capt. Robt
Carter. HeIberts gun was a 5O-guinea
Wesley Richards-no breech leaders at
that time
Though but % years of age. l was
married and keeping house on nv farm
twelve miles from Winchester, where we
spent a couple Of days, and then took up
our march 20 Warrenton, forty miles of.
We made an early start and reached the
Shenandoah river, six miles away. inst
at sunrise, allowing the dogs to run that
distance, when we took them in the
wagon with us. We crossed the Blue
Ridge mountain at the famous "Asbbv's
Gap" named for Capt. John Ashbv. a
celebrated Indian fighter, previous to
100, and who was also a close personal
friend of the renowned General Daniel
Morgan, of Revolutionary fame, and
was with Morgan at the Battle of Sara
toga and other famous battles, acting as
Morgan's scout.
when over the mountains, we struck |
antique old Paris, nesting Just at the
eastern base of the Blue Ridge. A few
years before some writer, in a Baltimore
paper, distinguished alike for his fertile !
pen and more fertile Imagination. brought
his old village into notority bv describ-
ng 1t as being submerged by a snowslide
rom the side OF the mountain, complete
" covering it up with forty feet of
snow and with naught visible of the old
burg except the tops of its chimneys. II
1t once brought a relay of rescuers, both
rom Baltimore and Alexandria, armed
With picks and shovels and scaling lad
iers, but, when reaching the scene. thew
ound the historic old town, as "Biu
Arp" would say, "calm and serene"
Old Dominion" was accused of this
aper, but, whether justly or uniustly,
his deponent sayeth not, but anyway,
fter that, there was a grudge entertain
d by some of the ancient Parisians
gainst the Octogenarien, and hence
Herbert and i thought it best to hurry
through town, over its enc cobblestone
treet
The next town reached was historic
ID Salem, of that day, now Marshall
named for Chief Justice ohm Marshall.
Hose descendants own nearly all the
md around the old village.
Salem, at the time that ] speak of, was