Ted Marsh on an Important Mission

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HE SPRANG AT TED AND BARKED HIS DELIGHT
Ted Marsh on An Important Mission
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.
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“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.