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What you do will come back to you!

Freda Savahl
3 min readJan 7, 2023

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One of the greatest stories ever told!

Photo by Marcos Pena Jr on Unsplash

Good Karma.

The new class for Life support students had commenced. I volunteered to organize the mannikins in preparation for the activities.

The instructor, Mr. Jeffrey Strachan, entered, introduced himself & greeted all the students asking their first names & what they hoped to achieve in life.

He tells the following story:

In the 20th century, a Scottish farmer walked past a swamp looking for one of his dogs. Suddenly he heard a cry for help. He ran towards the sound and saw a boy struggling to get out of the muddy end of a swamp.

The farmer cut down a long branch from a nearby tree, extended the branch to the boy & helped the lad get out. The boy trembled & cried with gratefulness to the farmer for saving him.

The farmer offered to get a change of clothes for the boy, but he said he was good to run home as his father was waiting & may be worried.

The following morning, a carriage stopped at the farmer’s front door. A well-dressed gentleman greeted the farmer and thanked him for saving his son from the swamp.

The gentleman offered to pay the farmer a considerable sum of money. However, the…

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Freda Savahl
Freda Savahl

Written by Freda Savahl

Retired Nurse Practitioner WHC /Contract Provider Deployment Military Services. US Citizen. Immigrant from South Africa 1978.

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