Mr.James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr.Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons.

詹姆斯·斯科特先生在錫爾伯里有一個汽車修理廠，現(xiàn)在他在平赫斯特又買了一間修理廠。平赫斯特距離錫爾伯里只有5英里，但是斯科特先生無法為他的修理廠安裝電話機，所以他就買了12只鴿子。

Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes.

昨天，一只鴿子從平赫斯特帶了一封信到錫爾伯里。這只鳥飛這段路程只用了3分鐘。

Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.

到目前為止，斯科特先生從一個修理廠發(fā)送了大量索取備件和緊急的信件到另一個修理廠。

PS: Up to now, 到目前為止

In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.

于是，他開始自己的私人“電話”業(yè)務。

PS: In this way, 于是