Concerning Tobias Lang and the Art of the Englischerblaudruck.
The old master enjoyed having the boy in the workshop every day for an hour or two after school. During the past year that this boy had been coming in the late afternoons to help out, another older boy had been working for a salary at the tiering box, a boy the master liked well enough, but one who spoke little German, and to the master’s disappointment, one who showed little interest in learning any of the calico printer’s skills other than that for which he was being paid—hardly a promising candidate for an apprenticeship.
