462 AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. [December, 
[copyhigut secdked.] 
MR. CRANDALL’S D R E A M. —Drawn BY F. Beard .—Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
Few men have afforded more pleasure to young people 
than Mr. Crandall, who invented the Building Blocks, 
which we described and figured when they first appeared. 
They are made so that the ends lock into each other, and 
the structures built of them not only do not fall down, 
but are so strong that they may be lifted and car¬ 
ried about. As a toy they are nearly perfect, and then- 
great excellence is owing to the care given by the inven¬ 
tor in contriving the machinery to make them, and to 
make them just right. Mr. C. has his mind so much 
upon Building Blocks, that one of our artists is disposed 
to think that he dreams of them, and has represented in 
the above engraving what he supposes Mr. C. saw in 
the dream from which lie has just awoke. We father 
suspect that the artist has some time in his life read the 
amusing travels of Gulliver; as he has introduced a large 
number of Liliputian people who are at work bombard¬ 
ing and attacking in various ways (he ingenious in¬ 
ventor, from fortifications, and by means of scaling- 
ladders, etc., made from his own Building Blocks. 
Orange Judd & Co. have them. See advertisement pages. 
