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Challenge of the Yukon: Old Ben's Gold

Challenge of the Yukon · September 24, 1948 · 29 min · 4,903 words

The transcript of “Old Ben's Gold”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast September 24, 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Challenge of the Yukon free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Now as gunshots echo across the winds, swept snow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, quite the pop-weeks and quite the pop-weeks, the breakfast cereal shot from gun, present the challenge of the Yukon. It's Yukon King, swiftness and strong asleep dog of the northwest, placing the trail for sergeant Preston of the northwest Monupolis in his relentless pursuit of warbreakers.

Gold, Gold discovered in the Yukon, a stampede to the Klondike in the wild race for riches, back to the days of the Gold Rush. With Quaker Pup Wheat and Quaker Pup Rice bring you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog Yukon King as they meet the challenge of the Yukon.

It's the way Quaker Pup Wheat or Rice disappears at breakfast time. These ready to serve cereals hit the spot first to last delicious spoonful. Yes, we to rice shot from guns is exploded up to eight times normal size to make it crisp and tender Tomorrow morning fill a bowl with Quaker puck we to rice top with fruit like say a slice bananas add milk and sugar and say do you know what?

There's no beatin this eaten. That's what? Ben Taylor was a kindly old prospector who lived in his cabin near his claim about two miles outside of the settlement of Dundee Old Ben's grandson Bobby ten years old lived with him Bobby was an orphan, and thought his grandfather was the finest and bravest man in all Yukon territory.

Old Ben had blew himself up in Bobby's estimation by the many heroic tales he told the boy. Though the people in Dundee laughed at Old Ben's habit of stretching the truth, they regarded him as a harmless and liable old sourdough.

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