From Roger.Amgot@wanadoo.fr Fri Nov 12 23:29 MET 1999
From: RW <Roger.Amgot@wanadoo.fr>
To: Friendship@amgot.org
Subject: National Friendship Week

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 whom 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, waiving the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came
to the door of the family hovel.

"Is this your son?" the nobleman asked.

"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.

"I'll make you a deal" said the nobleman. "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.

With the passage of 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. Work like you don't
need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's
watching.

It's National Friendship Week. Pass this on, and brighten someone's day.

Nothing will happen if you do not decide to pass it along. The only
thing that will happen, if you DO pass it on, is that someone might
smile (because of you).

[A chain letter, maybe an Urban Legend, that deserves to be circulated - RW]