The Three Tradesmen

Fri October 12, 2012 by Kunal Bansal

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.