This 1 1/4" x 1 15/16" paper whistle was created by C. Carey Cloud and is one of a series of ten. The Cracker Jack Company ordered these embossed paper whistles from Cloudcrest in 1948 and again in 1949. Other whistles in the series have illustrations of a boat, a cat, a clown, a long-necked crane, a Scottie dog, an open-palmed hand, a monkey, a train, and a wolf. They are all red and off-white.

Each of the whistles has a different design on the back. All of the whistles in the series are marked "CRACKER JACK WHISTLE"; some have this on the front, and the others have it on the back. The train and the boat also say "TOOT TOOT," and the wolf is labeled "WOLF WHISTLE." The whistle with the hand has "BE CAREFUL" at the bottom of it.

Cloud wrote about the difficulty in perfecting these paper whistles in his autobiography, Cloud Nine, pp. 52, 55:

Once I designed a paper fluted whistle. They said it couldn't be done. I had to find the right weight and quality of paper that would stand sharp embossing. This accomplished, we went into production of several million. However, we found that about every twentieth whistle failed to sound. They had to be one hundred percent whistle-able. Furstrating as it was, we made new dies, and still some failures occurred. I recalled what Harrison McDonald had told me in my growing days: 'Go where the knowledge is.' I went to the Hammond Organ Company, in Chicago, taking along a handful of whistles. I asked to see their engineer and was ushered into his office; I told him my problem. He patiently took several whistles apart. Then he told me what the problem was, as simple as it was. We made the correction and had no further trouble.

It is a bit unusual that none of the whistles have any indication on them that they came from Cloud's company, Cloudcrest. Cloud generally made sure that his creations were identified, though not always.