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 present earnestly recommended bricks, as affording the best materials for an effectual resistance.

A Carpenter, with equal energy, proposed timber, as providing 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 his trade.