| Citation |
PP-P.780.094
5 Aug 1780:11
[Advertisement for runaway in verse]
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
August morning the first day,
My apprentice lad he ran away;
His name is John Shade I declare,
He's very apt to curse and swear:
His age I think, does now appear,
To be at least full twenty years:
His hair and complexion are troth dark,
And his surly look is one good mark;
His nose is large as they will see
Whoever brings him home to me:
His size about five feet four inches
Had on brown coat and olive breeches,
Old hat, blue stockings, shoes one pair,
And a coarse shirt something worse for wear;
Besides took with him sundry cloaths,
Light coat and breeches and a pair of cotton hose;
A hat that's very large, and almost new,
A linen jacket and black breeches too:
In Arch-Street at the Taylor's sign,
Pray ask for me, you may me find:
I did not tell my name at the beginning,
My trade's a taylor, and my name John Reedle:
The poets great for wit and art,
Perhaps may call me funny;
But I can bear that and some more,
Could I but get my Johnny.
Whoever takes him up don't fail
To lay him fast in any goal:
They shall be as a friend regarded,
And as above shall be rewarded.
N.B. All masters of vessels are forbidden to carry him off
at their peril.
|