What Goes Around Comes Around

Flemming 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 Flemming 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 surrounings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Flemming had saved. The nobleman offered to repay Farmer Flemming for saving his son's life, but the farmer would not accept payment. At that moment, Farmer Flemming's own son came to the door of the family hovel. The nobleman and the farmer struck up a deal that he would provide Farmer Flemming's son with the same level of education that his son would enjoy. His son attended the very best schools, and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. He went on to become known throughout the worked as the noted Sir Alexander Flemming, the discoverer of penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobelman'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.