{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes114.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes114.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes114.htm","text":"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.\"\nEvery man for himself.","title":"The Three Tradesmen","type":"page"}