New Concept English II - 4 (11/30/2008)

Lesson 5 No wrong numbers



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. Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message

from Pinburst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance the first three

minutes. Up to 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.