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Farmer Saved the Life of a Boy
His name was
Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a
living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He
dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified
boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved
the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
Next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse
surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced
himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved. "I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my
son's life."
"No, I can't accept any payment for what I did," the Scottish
farmer replied waving off the offer.
At the same moment, the farmer's own
son came to the door of the family hovel.
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the same level of education my own son will enjoy. If the
lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we
both will be proud of." And that he did.
Farmer Fleming's son
attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's
Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known
throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the
discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog
was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman who educated the Farmer Fleming's son was Lord Randolph Churchill.
And his son's name was Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
[People
that are too pathetic to follow their dreams, will always find ways to
discourage others.]
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