新概念英语

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新概念英语第二册

Lesson 5: No Wrong Numbers


新概念英语第二册


What does 'No wrong numbers' mean?

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 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 urgent messages from one garage to the other.

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