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to go, as it would never do for the present age. He 
agreed with Mr. Alward that they must begin with educa- 
tion. Though he went to sea at thirteen, he ought not to 
have gone; and he might say another thing, that his 
apprenticeship never taught him his business; he learnt 
it and qualified himself almost in spite of the master 
he sailed with, and many a night he had taken his instru- 
ment and stolen upon deck to get an observation when he 
dare not let his master see him. His idea was, that there 
should be training homes for boys established either by 
Government or by individuals, where they could learn the 
first rudiments of seamanship, and let them take their 
certificate from there. 
Mr. BLOOMFIELD said he could not allow this topic to 
pass without saying a word with reference to apprentice- 
ship. It seemed to be the idea that Government were to 
take the matter in hand and make fishermen for the fish- 
ing fleet, but he had experience of what had been done 
for a great industry in the matter of apprenticeship. He 
had the honour of being the originator of the only china 
factory that ever existed in Ireland. When that com- 
" menced they had nothing but a lot of ragged urchins all 
round the village, and they were obliged to send over to 
this country for English and Scotch potters to commence. 
Fortunately his partner took up the question of appren- 
ticeship, and they had forty-five or fifty of these ragged 
urchins, who began by simply turning the jigger, but in 
two or three years they learnt the business, and now you 
could go into that village and see those same ragged 
urchins wearing fine broadcloth, and earning from £2 to 
43 aweek. If they attempted to take it out of the hands 
of the fishermen themselves, the end would be that the 
glorious tribe of fishermen must degenerate into a lot of 
