(1). Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst
JamesScott先生在塞尔珀里有个汽车修理工场。现在他又在平赫斯特买下另一个汽车修理工场。
(2). Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage
平赫斯特离塞尔珀里办有五英里,但Scott先生新买下的汽车修理工场装不上电话机。
(3). So he has just bought twelve pigeons
所以他就买了十二只鸽子。
(4). Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes.
昨天一只鸽子从平赫斯特到塞尔珀里送了第一封信,全程飞行三分钟。
(5). Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.
到现在为止,Scott先生已经从一个汽车修理工场到另一个工场传递了许多索取零件的信和其他紧急函件。
(6). In this way, he has begun his own private telephone service.
就这样,他办起了自己的私人“电话”业务。