Turveydrop was in bed, I found, and Caddy was milling his chocolate, which a melancholy little boy who was an apprentice --it seemed such a curious thing to be
apprenticed to the trade of dancing--was waiting to carry upstairs.
I told her I was going to be apprenticed to Joe, I believed; and I enlarged upon my knowing nothing and wanting to know everything, in the hope that she might offer some help towards that desirable end.
I was fully old enough now, to be apprenticed to Joe; and when Joe sat with the poker on his knees thoughtfully raking out the ashes between the lower bars, my sister would so distinctly construe that innocent action into opposition on his part, that she would dive at him, take the poker out of his hands, shake him, and put it away.
"Meaning the master you were to be apprenticed to?"
Some people think that he may have been a mercer or cloth merchant, because later Caxton was
apprenticed to one of the richest cloth merchants of London.
Fuchs had been
apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in the old country and was very handy with tools.
You will be
apprenticed to the wool guild, become a merchant, and like it!
He has done well for himself and he has done well for the trainers and owners who have employed him, and he has done well for the man he is
apprenticed to, Richard Hannon.
