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The Unrecorded History of Colonial Apprentices
"Early to bed, And early to rise,
Makes a man wealthy and unwise
_ Poor Richard's Almanac (I think)
Yes, if you got up early. you might join the rowdy apprentices and what we now call "twinks" when they mobbed Boston, New York, and Philadelphia to protest the occupying British and Hessian troops.
And you'd find it easy to persuade them male favors to dispense in return for silver pence.
I don't actually know if apprentices hustled, but as a group they answered only to their own. and since they had very little mpney you can be sure that they hustled a lot. It just couldn't be written down!
Gotcha, bitch!