The Three Tradesmen
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A great city was besieged, and its inhabitants were called together to consider the best means of protecting it from...
A great city was besieged, and its inhabitants were called together to consider
the best means of protecting it from the enemy. A Bricklayer earnestly
recommended bricks as affording the best material for an effective resistance. A
Carpenter, with equal enthusiasm, proposed timber as a preferable method of
defense. Upon which a Currier stood up and said, "Sirs, I differ from you
altogether: there is no material for resistance equal to a covering of hides;
and nothing so good as leather."
Every man for himself.
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