The Three Tradesmen

by Aesop

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.

Moral:
Every man for him trade.