2021-03-20（英语）

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 just bought twleve pigeons.

Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird coverd 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 "telphone" service.

Lesson 6 Percy Buttons

I have just moved to a house in Bridge Street.

Yesterday a beggar knocked at my door. He asked me for a meal and a glass of beer.

In return for this, the beggar stood on his head and sang songs.

I gave him a meal. He ate the food and drank the beer. Then he put a piece of cheese in his pocket and went away.

Later a neighbour told me about him. Everybody knows him.

His name is Percy Buttons. He calls at every house in the street once a month and always asks for a meal and a glass of beer.