詹姆斯·斯科特先生在锡尔伯里有一家车库，现在他刚刚又在平恩赫斯特买了另一家车库。
Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.
平恩赫斯特距离锡尔伯里只有五英里，但是斯科特先生无法为他的新车库安装电话，所以他刚刚买了十二只鸽子。
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.
昨天，一只鸽子把第一条信息从平恩赫斯特带到了锡尔伯里。
Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury.
这只鸟用了三分钟飞完了这段距离。
The bird covered the distance in three minutes.
到目前为止，斯科特先生已经从一个车库向另一个车库发送了大量的备件请求和其他紧急信息。
Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.
通过这种方式，他开始了自己的私人“电话”服务。
In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.