1874.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
•2,75 
CRANDALL' S GREAT SHOff.-THE ACROBATS. 
A HOME EXHIBITION. 
Hero is genuine FUN for you, Girls and Boys, with nothing about the Show to 
injure your morals, but on the contrary, a great deal to develop your constructive or 
mechanical talent?. These new Acrobats of Mr. Crandall are the most wonderful 
toys we have ever seen. If you carefully examine each of the figures on these two 
pages, you will see that there are only seven different pieces. A box of these Acro- 
bats contains four bodies, four heads, eight arms, eight legs, one flag, and six pieces 
of wood, or thirty-one pieces in all, and yet from these few elements you can not only 
make pictures similar to those before you, but many thousand* uf others. The 
pieces are variously colored, which can not he shown in our ink engravings. They arc 
bo grooved and jointed and fitted, that they fasten strongly together in all conceivable 
positions. There is just one unpleasant tiling about these Acrobats, viz., everybody 
that has seen them wants them, and Mr, Crandall can not begin to make them as fast 
as they are wanted, and it may be some time before all our boys and girls can have 
them. These amusing new toys are creating a furore among all the children (and old 
folks too) who have succeeded in getting hold of them. Every day's supply received 
a: -21.") Broadway, has ''gone off like hot cakes," and correspondents are inquiring for 
them, their price, etc. When the market can be supplied they will be on sale by the 
toy dealers generally. The Orange Judd Company are selling them as fast, as received 
at $1 a box, delivered at 245 Broadway, New York, but if to be sent anywhere out 
of the city, the cost ot carriage by express or otherwise must be added to the $1 a box. 
