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.&