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His bill provided that the Federal Government should pay full value to the slave-holders of the District for all slaves in their possession, and should at once free the older ones. The younger ones were to be apprenticed for a term of years, in order to make them self-supporting, after which they also were to receive their freedom.
Davy Fiske was a weaver, and soon after the fox hunt I was apprenticed to Robert Harrington, to learn the blacksmith's trade. He was a large, strong man, of a kindly nature, and was an excellent bass singer. As we worked together in his shop, with his son Thaddeus, we frequently sang psalm tunes, and his younger son Dan piped in a treble.
Well, the time went on, just as before, until Flavia was old enough to be apprenticed to Madama Castagna, the grand dressmaker. She had always been a good, steady, hard-working girl, and, thanks to the good Doratei Sisters, she sewed so beautifully that very soon Madama allowed her twenty centimes a day.
He was apprenticed in Paris, and, settling later in Augsburg, he founded a branch of the Holbein family on which the Emperor Matthias conferred a patent of nobility, making them the Holbeins of Holbeinsberg. This is one of the best of the many splendid portraits Holbein painted. It hangs in The Hague gallery.
The literary scullion who has anything to offer a hungry world will doubtless find a way to fricassee it. When seventeen, Herbert Spencer was apprenticed to a surveyor on the London and Birmingham Railway. The pay was meager board and keep and five pounds for the first year, with ten pounds the second year "if he deserved it."
And he was employed there in the store, apprenticed to the candy-maker's trade.
Going further back, he informed me that about the age of fourteen, if I happened to be apprenticed, or in any way placed under authority, I kicked violently over the traces, which was quite true, inasmuch as I ran away from school twice at that precise age, so that my astrologer scored one. Then came a dreadful mistake.
On the 16th May, 1881, a native, named Frederick Molepo, was examined by the Royal Commission. The following are extracts from his examination: Yes. Half-a-year. "How do you know that you were a slave? Might you not have been an apprentice? No, I was not apprenticed. "How do you know? They got me from my parents, and ill-treated me. Every day. They sold me. "How much did they sell you for?
After his Confirmation on which great occasion he wore his father's coat and his first new boots his mother insisted on his being apprenticed without further delay. With difficulty he finally succeeded in persuading her to let him start for the capital with his few savings.
"I could go with you some time." "Oh, you!" She laughed at him. "You mayn't, you know." "No." He bowed his head. "Come, don't look so glum," she said encouragingly, stroking his chin with her fore-finger, and disclosing a hole in her shabby kid glove. "You go to college, you see. Artur is to be apprenticed too, next autumn. Mother thinks to a hairdresser.
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