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原文

Mr. James Scott has garage in Slibury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst in only five miles from Slibury, 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 Slibury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent message from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own private "telephone" service.

译文

詹姆斯先生在西尔伯里有一家修理厂，现在又在平和斯特购买另外一家。虽然这两家修理厂只有五英里远，但是詹姆斯先生没有能够给新修理厂装上电话，所以他买了十二只信鸽。昨天，一只信鸽把消息从平和斯特带到西尔伯里。它飞完全程才花了三分钟。从此以后，詹姆斯先生发送了大量索取配件的信件和其他紧急信息从一个修理厂到另外一个。就这样，詹姆斯先生开启了他私人“电话”业务。