Board game with four wooden playing pieces, a cardboard spinner with a metal arrow and a paper board applied to the bottom half of the paper covered cardboard box; chromolithographed board with a grid of multicolored numbered squares, some with directions, all around a rectangle with an image a boy carrying packages past an man in a striped suit smoking a cigarette and a bank office; cover lithographed with a boy carrying a package and another boy grasping the ear of a boy and dropping packages; box lithographed with the inscription, "THE/ ERRAND/ BOY/ AN AMUSING GAME/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., NEW YORK/ COPYRIGHTED 1891."; directons printed on the box cover.