OLYMPIA - "Fun in a Ford" or "Who had the last laugh" might well head accounts by Dr. Glenn O. Bach, United States predatory animal director of Olympia, of a trip through an isolated section of eastern Washington.
Making a tour to confer with his numerous animal hunters through out the state, Dr. Bach, driving an ancient flivver roadster, set out bravely from Spring Valley, near Spokane, with Republic as his destination.
All went well until he had arrived at Inchelium and desired to ferry across the Columbia river at Gifford. The ferryman was dubious at the outset, and sure enough the ferry grounded in midstream and Dr. Bach was forced to drive off the ferry into 26 inches of water. The flivver did its best but water over the top of the carburetor quickly settled matters, while the cold Columbia found its way through the floor of the car.
An aged Indian sitting on the far shore thought it was great fun and laughed long at the sight until Dr. Bach had waded ashore and asked him to bring his mule to the flivver's rescue. The redskin refused to budge until $5 had been placed in his hand and later gave up the tasak when a harness stay parted. He kept the money.
Some miles north of Inchelium on a rocky cliff road the Bach "lizzie" lost its front wheel on the wrong side and left the car with its nose over a 250-foot cliff, necessitating a long walk and much delay. Still new troubles developed an hour after progress had been resumed when a three-foot log lay across the narrow road. Dr. Bach had to build up a layer of poles on each side of the obstruction.
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