1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 🔊
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes. 🔊
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. 🔊 No animal shall kill any other animal.
It was very neatly written, and except that "friend" was written "freind" and one of the "S's" was the wrong way round, the spelling was correct all the way through. 🔊 Snowball read it aloud for the benefit of the others.
All the animals nodded in complete agreement, and the cleverer ones at once began to learn the Commandments by heart. 🔊
"Now, comrades," cried Snowball, throwing down the paint−brush, "to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do." 🔊
But at this moment the three cows, who had seemed uneasy for some time past, set up a loud lowing. 🔊 They had not been milked for twenty−four hours, and their udders were almost bursting. 🔊 After a little thought, the pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows fairly successfully, their trotters being well adapted to this task. 🔊