Back in colonial times a blacksmith or maybe a copper or a cobbler would take
a boy of the ages of 12 or 13 to be his 'Apprentice'. An apprentice is a young
boy who learns the craftsmanship of a certain trade. This most likely would be
the trade that he would like to be doing when he is older. So someday when the
person who trained him died, the boy that was his apprentice would take over
that trade. The boy would already know how to make an ax head or a barrel or
whatever his trade was. Apprentices were very important in colonial towns.
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