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Challenge of the Yukon: The Case of the River Pirates

Challenge of the Yukon · September 23, 1949 · 29 min · 4,996 words

The transcript of “The Case of the River Pirates”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast September 23, 1949. 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 windswept, Snow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Quaker-puff-wheat, and Quaker-puff-rise, The breakfast cereal shot from guns, Present the challenge of the Yukon. It's Yukon King, swiftness and strong asleep dog of the northwest, Blazing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the northwest-mounted police, In his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers,

Unkink! Unkink! Gold. Gold is covered in Yukon, a stampede to the Klondike in the wild race for riches, back to the days of the Gold Rush, with Quaker Puff Wheat and Quaker Puff Rice bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog Yukon King, as they meet the challenge of the Yukon.

Say, if at breakfast time you're... Yes, hungry as a lion, well sir, just you dive into a heaping polefall of delicious Quaker Puff Rice or Quaker Puff Wheat. Man, oh man, there's a treat that'll tame the old appetite.

In fact, it's the cat's meow. Yes, these ready to serve giant grains are shot from guns, are nourishing crisp tenders. loaded with nut-like flavor. So tomorrow enjoy this breakfast treat. Quaker puffed rice or Quaker puffed wheat. It was hard work paddling against the current. When the sergeant rounded the bend and saw the landing directly ahead on the left bank,

he welcomed the site. As to put up the night king, we won't even have to make camp. But for some reason the great dog was uneasy. He stood in the bow of the canoe, His nose lifted into the breeze, his ears alert for any sound.

What's the matter, boy? The sergeant could see nothing wrong. The landing was like many others along the Yukon. A dock, the wood choppers cabin, and the large pile of logs the river steamers used for fuel.

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