Mengelmoes / Medley

The Miracle

Yesterday was a day full of miracles. I met Sally; he is a small boy from the farm land just outside the new town I moved to last week. He has a face full of red freckles and he smiles all the time exposing his very big white teeth.

I was on my way to the towns' grocery shop when I bumped into him. Literary bumped into him. He came around the corner with his bicycle and ram into me. I was very angry at first but when I looked in his green bluish eyes my heart melt. He was on his way to the pharmacy.

I asked him if I could help him, he just smiled and looked at me and said it was okay, he has everything he needs. I insisted to walk with him to the pharmacy just to make sure he is OK.

He told me about is life on the farm, always smiling. How he gets up before the sun is up and helps his granddad with the necessary work. His job starts with milking Betsy the cow, and she doesn't like that at all. He sings to her to calm her first then he can milk her.

After breakfast, which was usually dry toast and milk he and his granddad goes and collect the eggs from the chicken coop. They can't eat it because they sell it at the market every Saturday morning, the people love to buy it and they use the money to buy bread cheese for the upcoming week, but his granddad always gives him a few pennies to buy him a sweet at the lady who sells the most delicious candy. Then they work in the vegetable garden to make sure that there are no insects that can harm the vegetables. He kept on rambling about all the other little things they must do every day.

We were about halfway to the pharmacy when I asked him why he was going to the pharmacy. He said that he was going to help his granddad. His granddad was very sick and he found a way to help him. He saved up all his candy money for a month and he is going to help his granddad.

He was very determining that he had enough money to get what he want. I tried to tell him that medicine is very expensive and I hope he had enough. Sally just smiles and said that he would have enough.

The last block we walked in silence, I was thinking that I would go in with him and help if it was needed.

We walked in the door and I could see the pharmacist looking at Sally with sadness in his eyes. I knew this is not going to work at all. Sally walked with pride up to the counter and greeted the pharmacist with great delight. The pharmacist bends over the counter and asked him how he can help Sally today.

Sally opens his bag and put the jar full of pennies on the counter, he then announced that this must be enough for his granddads operation. I could see that it was not nearly enough for any kind of operation. The pharmacist bends over and said that it was still not enough for his granddads heart operation.

I was very sad and confused and asked Sally if he knows how much a heart operation cost. He replied with eagerness that is cost a 100 pennies and a huge miracle, he doesn't know what a miracle looks like but he hopes every time he comes here that for all his trouble a miracle might follow him in.

I told him that today was the day, because I was the new heart surgeon at the local hospital...