Put one o' your young apprentices to it, and if he can't, make him learn.
"Command"
William McFee
In the olden time in many places in the provinces it was the practice on Christmas-day morning to permit the servants and apprentices to remain in bed, and for the mistress to get up and attend to the household duties.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
The clerk, whose duty it was to ring the bell, was irregular in his habits, and the late performance of his duties disappointed the toiling apprentices, who thus addressed him:- "Clerk of Bow bell, With thy yellow locks, For thy late ringing Thy head shall have knocks."
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews