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agreed to give me a tour of his old hunting haunts. Our trip down memory lane began at the Hume Ruritan ball field. He pointed out the footprint of the old Hume School — six rooms with a teacher in each. Poe was a member of the last high school graduating class, a star of the baseball team, and “a pretty fair bare-knuckle boxer, when I had to be.”
He pointed to the site of the bam where the pony he rode to school was stabled alongside those of Keysers, two clans of Pearsons, including Carroll, “the best whipper-in I ever had,” and the horses the school marms were provided as a job perk.
Master Sterling Larrabee from 1924 on hunted the area from south of Orlean as far north as Hume; Gen. George Patton hunted his Cobbler Mountain Hounds across land from Hume north to Marshall. The appearance of either pack, followed by formally attired riders who came from as far away as Leesburg, caused a considerable stir at the school, Poe recalled.
“The days Larrabee met in Hume, school wouldn’t start until he moved off at 9 a.m.”
Poe added that there really wasn’t much game back then. Deer and bear didn’t establish a foothold until the sanctuary of the Shenandoah National Park opened in 1936, and foxes and other small mammals were scarce due to trapping.
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