← ", and the pigs had great difficulty in making them see that this was contrary to the spirit of Animalism. 🔊
← The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. 🔊
← This was to be the name of the farm from now onwards. After this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be set against the end wall of the big barn. 🔊
← Forward, comrades! The hay is waiting." So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Mr. Jones's gun had been found lying in the mud, and it was known that there was a supply of cartridges in the farmhouse. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Again the animals seemed to remember that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days, and again Squealer was able to convince them that this was not the case. 🔊
← But still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. 🔊
← It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun. 🔊
← There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones's day. 🔊
← And the animals heard, from the direction of the farm buildings, the solemn booming of a gun. 🔊
← "But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two years!" 🔊
← The winter was as cold as the last one had been, and food was even shorter. 🔊
← Apart from the regular work of the farm, and the rebuilding of the windmill, there was the schoolhouse for the young pigs, which was started in March. 🔊
← It would be the first time that he had had leisure to study and improve his mind. 🔊
← However, Benjamin and Clover could only be with Boxer after working hours, and it was in the middle of the day when the van came to take him away. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. 🔊