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              1. No  Wrong Numbers

    Mr James scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.Pinhurst is a only five milees from Silbury, but Mr scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, 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 minutes. Up to now, Mr scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other. In this way, he has begun his own private "telephone" sevice. 

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            1.奇特的电话业务

   詹姆斯.斯科特先生在塞尔珀瑞有个汽车修理部。现在他又在频赫斯特买下一个汽车修理部。

   频赫斯特离塞尔珀瑞只五公里，但斯科特先生的汽车修理部装不上电话，他就买了十二只鸽子。

   昨天一只鸽子从频赫斯特到塞尔珀瑞送了第一封信，全程飞行三分钟。

   到现在为止，斯科特先生已经从这个修理部到哪个修理部传递了许多索取零件的信和其他紧急函件，就这样他办起自己的私人“电话”业务来了。