No hatmaker in the colonies may have more than two apprentices at once.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
Vondel, for instance, was a hatmaker; Hooft was the governor of Muyden; Van Lennep was a fiscal lawyer; Gravenswaert was a state counsellor; Bogaers, an advocate; Beets, a shepherd; so Tollens also, besides being a man of letters, was an apothecary at Rotterdam, and passed every day, even in his old age, in his drug-store.
"Holland, v. 1 (of 2)"
Edmondo de Amicis
The next Sunday you could see as many hats as the hatmaker had had time to make, and before the end of the month all the women in St. Martinville were wearing palmetto hats.
"Strange True Stories of Louisiana"
George Washington Cable