CHARLES HARDY,
STREET SWEEPER,
Takes this method publicly to return his grateful thanks to his friends of Marlborough street, Cornhill, &c. for their kindness to him during the past season; not only in patronizing him while able to perform his usual labors, but in assisting him while under the influence of a distressing and debilitating disease. He has grown old in the service of the inhabitants of Boston, and they do not forget him—they do not cast him off, or suffer him to become an inmate of the Alms-house; and although he is an African, he will not be guilty of the blackest of sins—that of ingratitude. He humbly solicits a continuance of their favors, to enable him to buffet the inclemency of the approaching season, (when his regular employment fails) and flatters himself he shall still be able to sustain that character of fidelity which the partiality of his friends has bestowed upon him.
Boston, Nov. 28, 1815.
Columbian Centinel.
The ſubſcriber wiſhes to notify his old honourable cuſtomers, who practiſe ſtealing and deſtroying his fruit every year, that his Water Mellons are now almoſt ripe; and if they do not as uſual deſtroy the fruit and vines immediately, they will get entirely ripe; and then ſome body or other will be the better for them, which will be a grievous mortification to thoſe manly gentlemen.
EZRA GRISWOLD.
Simſbury, Auguſt 4, 1794.
Connecticut Courant.