This is worth reading and re reading, even if you have already read it once.
As always
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.
The 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 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 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
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? Lord Randolph Churchill.
His son's name?
*Sir Winston Churchill.*
Sunday, March 1, 2009
worth reading
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