Farmer Flemming

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 run 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. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the scottman'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 payment for what I did" the scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer.


At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family's small and humble house.


"Is this your son?" the nobleman asked


"yes" the farmer replied proudly.


"I'll make you a deal, let me take him and give him a good education, if the lad is anything like his father he'll grow to be a man you can be proud of." And that he did.


In time, farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and he went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming as the discoverer of Penicillin. Years afterwards, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved him? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill. Someone once said, what goes around comes around.


1. Work like you don't need the money.


2. Love like you've never been hurt before.


3. Dance like no one's watching.


~ Author Unknown~

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