[at-l] Irish Wish

[KellyGoVols at aol.com (KellyGoVols@xxxxxxx)]

This is National Friendship Week, so I'm sending this to all my friends on 
the at-l:

An Irish Wish 

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, he 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. 

Someone once said: 

What goes around comes around. 

Work like you don't need the money. 

Love like you've never been hurt. 

Dance like nobody's watching. 

Sing like nobody's listening. 

Live like it's Heaven on Earth. 

It's National Friendship Week. 

Love,
KellyGoVols, a Scotch-Irish



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