← As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. 🔊
← It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way. 🔊
← Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. 🔊
← The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men. 🔊
← All men are enemies. All animals are comrades." At this moment there was a tremendous uproar. 🔊
← It was as though they had never seen these things before, and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own. 🔊
← All were agreed that no animal must ever live there. The animals had their breakfast, and then Snowball and Napoleon called them together again. 🔊
← At this some of the other animals murmured, but it was no use. All the pigs were in full agreement on this point, even Snowball and Napoleon. 🔊
← Obviously they were going to attempt the recapture of the farm. This had long been expected, and all preparations had been made. 🔊
← (How these were to be procured, Snowball did not say.) But he maintained that it could all be done in a year. 🔊
← In a moment he was out of the door and they were after him. Too amazed and frightened to speak, all the animals crowded through the door to watch the chase. 🔊
← "But he was wounded," said Boxer. "We all saw him running with blood." "That was part of the arrangement!" 🔊
← When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. 🔊
← There was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. She knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. 🔊
← But still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. 🔊
← All the other animals immediately raced back to the farmhouse to give Squealer the news. 🔊
← They were still the only farm in the whole county−in all England!−owned and operated by animals. 🔊
← It might be that their lives were hard and that not all of their hopes had been fulfilled; but they were conscious that they were not as other animals. 🔊
← Like all of Napoleon's speeches, it was short and to the point. He too, he said, was happy that the period of misunderstanding was at an end. 🔊