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قراءة كتاب Ted and the Telephone
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TED AND THE TELEPHONE
By
SARA WARE BASSETT
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
WILLIAM F. STECHER
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1922
Copyright, 1922,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published April, 1922
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO THE MEMORY OF
EDWIN T. HOLMES
WHO PLAYED A PART IN THE WONDERFUL
TELEPHONE STORY, THIS
BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
S. W. B.
It gives me much pleasure to acknowledge the generosity of Mr. Thomas Augustus Watson, the associate of and co-worker with Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, who has placed at my disposal his "Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone."
Also the courtesy of Mrs. Edwin T. Holmes who has kindly allowed me to make use of her husband's book: "A Wonderful Fifty Years."
The Author.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | An Unheralded Champion | 1 |
| II | Ted Renews Old Times | 11 |
| III | Going to Housekeeping | 21 |
| IV | The First Night in the Shack | 35 |
| V | A Visitor | 49 |
| VI | More Guests | 60 |
| VII | Mr. Laurie | 76 |
| VIII | Diplomacy and Its Results | 94 |
| IX | The Story of the First Telephone | 106 |
| X | What Came Afterward | 122 |
| XI | The Rest of the Story | 141 |
| XII | Conspirators | 152 |
| XIII | What Ted Heard | 163 |
| XIV | The Fernalds Win Their Point | 173 |
| XV | What Came of the Plot | 189 |
| XVI | Another Calamity | 199 |
| XVII | Surprises | 213 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| "Would you like to go to college if you could?" persisted the elder man | Frontispiece |
| "You can't be spreadin' wires an' jars an' things round my room!" protested Mr. Turner | Page 9 |
| Soon he came within sight of the shack which stood at the water's edge | " 27 |
| He heard an answering shout and a second later saw Ted Turner dash through the pines | " 88 |
TED AND THE TELEPHONE
CHAPTER I
AN UNHERALDED CHAMPION
Ted Turner lived at Freeman's Falls,