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apprentice and placing him into a truck (a hand pushed cart). The former apprentice would be showered with ink, glue, paper shavings, rubbish and even cat food. The truck would then be pushed around the various departments of the printers and even into the street outside, where the apprentice might be tied to a lamp-post or similar. The ceremony continues to modern times in some companies, for example in 2012 a
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