One day in the beginning of 19 century, Farmer Fleming was working on his field. Suddenly he heard shouters for help from nearby swamp, without a moment of hesitation, he ran to help. He found a boy was trapping into muddy swamp and was sinking fast. He quickly threw his hew to reach out the boy, finally slowly pulled the boy out of death.
The next day, a well dressed gentleman stopped at Fleming’s cottage. It was the boy’s father Lord Randolph Churchill. He had brought a handsome amount of money to thank the farmer for saving his son. Farmer Fleming refused to accept.
Then, Lord Randolph saw a dirty face shyly peeping through the farmer’s back, “Is this your son? Why isn’t he in school?” He asked.
Upon knowing that The Flemings were too poor to send their children to school, Lord Randolph sincerely offered to pay for boy’s education. Unknowingly this grateful deed would save his son second time.
Many years later, Lord Randolph’s son grew up to be Primer Minister of British, Winston Churchill. He was stricken by pneumonia and was very ill in the midst of World War II. It was the new invention Penicillin saved his life. By the wonderful coincidence, the inventor of Penicillin happened to be Farmer Fleming’s son. Because of his father’s grateful action to support young Alexander Fleming, not only did he have a great achievement in medical history, he was also saved his son one more time.
A good deed deserves another one, and be grateful always brings richer blessings.
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