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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."
Moral:
Every man for himself
The Three Tradesmen
Fable
A Fable
by
Aesop
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