← The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← The rest of the animals sat facing them in the main body of the barn. 🔊
← Afterwards Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals' minds at rest. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. 🔊
← Never had the farm−and with a kind of surprise they remembered that it was their own farm, every inch of it their own property−appeared to the animals so desirable a place. 🔊
← But still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← About half the animals on the farm rushed out to the knoll where the windmill stood. 🔊
← All the other animals immediately raced back to the farmhouse to give Squealer the news. 🔊
← Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand. 🔊
← 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. 🔊