What Goes Around Comes Around
Once upon a
time.........and now you know the
rest of the story!
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 take him
and give him a good education. If
the lad is anything like his father,
he'll grow to 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
went on to become known
throughout
the world as the noted Sir Alexander
Fleming, the discoverer of
Penicillin.
Years afterward, 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.
Author Unknown