← He had made an arrangement with one of the cockerels to call him in the mornings half an hour earlier than anyone else, and would put in some volunteer labour at whatever seemed to be most needed, before the regular day's work began. 🔊
← This arrangement would have worked well enough if it had not been for the disputes between Snowball and Napoleon. 🔊
← Afterwards Squealer was sent round the farm to explain the new arrangement to the others. 🔊
← He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three−quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour. 🔊
← The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said. He was therefore making arrangements to sell a stack of hay and part of the current year's wheat crop, and later on, if more money were needed, it would have to be made up by the sale of eggs, for which there was always a market in Willingdon. 🔊
← Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements. 🔊
← Nevertheless, the sight of Napoleon, on all fours, delivering orders to Whymper, who stood on two legs, roused their pride and partly reconciled them to the new arrangement. 🔊
← "But he was wounded," said Boxer. "We all saw him running with blood." "That was part of the arrangement!" 🔊
← After about a quarter of an hour Squealer appeared, full of sympathy and concern. He said that Comrade Napoleon had learned with the very deepest distress of this misfortune to one of the most loyal workers on the farm, and was already making arrangements to send Boxer to be treated in the hospital at Willingdon. 🔊