The Project Gutenberg eBook, Ted Marsh on an Important Mission, by Elmer Sherwood, Illustrated by Alice Carsey

Title: Ted Marsh on an Important Mission

Author: Elmer Sherwood

Release Date: May 12, 2009 [eBook #28769]

Language: English

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HE SPRANG AT TED AND BARKED HIS DELIGHT

Ted Marsh on An
Important Mission

by

ELMER SHERWOOD

Author of “Ted Marsh, the Boy
Scout”, “Buffalo Bill’s Boyhood”,
“Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express”,
etc., etc.

Illustrations by Alice Carsey

Whitman Publishing Co.

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

TED MARSH ON AN IMPORTANT MISSION

“Ted, oh Ted.”

The speaker’s hail was not altogether unexpected. The boy called Ted turned about and met Captain Wilson half way.

The familiar figure of the boy proves to be Ted Marsh who had come out to Western Canada with his friends, John Dean and Mrs. Dean. After a number of months on the Double X Ranch, months which the boy had found both exhilarating and tremendously to his liking, he had been sent to Wayland Academy. To those of us who have read Ted Marsh the Boy Scout, the following facts are familiar. A brief resume, however, is set forth herewith for those readers who are new so that they can safely gather the threads of our story.

Ted Marsh, a likeable newsboy, living in 12 Chicago, makes the acquaintance of John Dean, a Canadian rancher. Ted takes him to the Settlement to which he belongs. Dean’s interest in the boy grows. Then as the boy begins to show the man the