The Three Tradesmen

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The Three Tradesmen
            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.