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Challenge of the Yukon: The Sergeant's Present

Challenge of the Yukon · December 23, 1949 · 29 min · 4,572 words

The transcript of “The Sergeant's Present”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast December 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 wind swept, Snow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Quaker-puff-wheat, Baker-puff-rise, The breakfast cereal shot from gun, Present the challenge of the U-Cuh. It's U-Cuh-M King, Swift, the since-strongest lead dog of the Northwest, Placing the trail for Sergeant Preston, Of the Northwest-mounted police, In his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers.

One came, one has came! Gold, gold discovered 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 Rise bringing you the adventures of Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog Yukon King as they meet the challenge

of the Yukon. Did you fellas and girls eat a hearty breakfast this morning? Did it include a heaping bowl full of delicious Quaker Puffed Wheat or Quaker Puffed Rice with milk or cream and fruit?

Remember, wheat and rice shot from guns furnishes extra food values of restored natural grain amounts of vitamin B1, niacin and iron, and they're swell tasting, not like in flavor, crisp and tender. For a hearty breakfast dish you like to eat, get Quaker Puffed Rice and Quaker Puffed Wheat.

John Nicholas, with his red cheeks and flowing white beard, seemed the picture of benevolence as he sat at his desk, but there was nothing benevolent about his eyes. He was weighing out the wages of his chief clerk, and he seemed to begrudge every grain of gold he poured on the scales. But last he finished and poured the dust into

a tiny leather poke. Yeah, that takes care of him for another month. Johnny yes, mr. Nick less yes, you he did Mr. Nick less this does doesn't belong to me. What's it no sir? I O you this and $50 more sir. What are you talking about? Well?

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