Aesop's Phrases

There is nothing like leather.
Every man for his own trade.

The Three Tradesmen. 113 by Townsend.

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.

CS118.
This fable is not from Greece, probably, was made in Middle Ages.

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