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Just recieved this and I wonder if it's true or not
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.

Wow! Well it should be true it's such a good story. I hope it is but will we even know?

Lyn x

Oh you spolit it now lol.................it was a lovely thought though

a much documented urban myth - sorry to disappoint

Errol go away !! Leave me to think that their are wonderful kind people out there somewhere lol

lol Jessie - the internet is overpopulated with urban myths such as this unfortunately.
The downside is that many of these stories become "faction" because people believe them and so we get a situation where the edges of fact and fiction become terribly blurred.

Go and look at my other posting Errol........it may make you laugh lol

do you mean the Heimlich one?

Parrot we know lol.................we are trying to make the world seem friendlier and nicer and kinder

Errol yes the Hind lick one pmsl

Fortunately I have never been called upon to perform such a manoeuvre presonally.

Oh dear bless you Errol.................. if you see someone choking try it, you never know what response you will get pmsl

A slap around the lamb chops no doubt!

I like this story and don't care if it isn't true - it should be