新概念第二册第五课课文,

no wrong numbers Mr。James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury ,but Mr。Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garae,so he has just bought twelve pigeons。Yesterday ,a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury 。The bird covered the distance in three minues。Up tu now ,Mr。Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other 。In this way ,he has begun his own private "telephone"service。