← With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring. 🔊
← At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam. 🔊
← Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. 🔊
← Unfortunately, the uproar awoke Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed, sure that there was a fox in the yard. 🔊
← They tiptoed from room to room, afraid to speak above a whisper and gazing with a kind of awe at the unbelievable luxury, at the beds with their feather mattresses, the looking−glasses, the horsehair sofa, the Brussels carpet, the lithograph of Queen Victoria over the drawing−room mantelpiece. 🔊
← Huge boulders, far too big to be used as they were, were lying all over the bed of the quarry. 🔊
← Nevertheless, some of the animals were disturbed when they heard that the pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing−room as a recreation room, but also slept in the beds. 🔊
← Boxer passed it off as usual with "Napoleon is always right!", but Clover, who thought she remembered a definite ruling against beds, went to the end of the barn and tried to puzzle out the Seven Commandments which were inscribed there. 🔊
← Does it not say something about never sleeping in a bed?" With some difficulty Muriel spelt it out. 🔊
← "It says, 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,"' she announced finally. 🔊
← "You have heard then, comrades," he said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? 🔊
← And why not? You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds? 🔊
← A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. 🔊
← The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention. We have removed the sheets from the farmhouse beds, and sleep between blankets. 🔊
← And very comfortable beds they are too! But not more comfortable than we need, I can tell you, comrades, with all the brainwork we have to do nowadays. 🔊
← Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?" The animals reassured him on this point immediately, and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds. 🔊
← They were executed immediately, and fresh precautions for Napoleon's safety were taken. Four dogs guarded his bed at night, one at each corner, and a young pig named Pinkeye was given the task of tasting all his food before he ate it, lest it should be poisoned. 🔊
← Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen. 🔊
← And about half an hour later, when Boxer had somewhat recovered, he was with difficulty got on to his feet, and managed to limp back to his stall, where Clover and Benjamin had prepared a good bed of straw for him. 🔊
← And when Squealer went on to give further graphic details of Boxer's death−bed, the admirable care he had received, and the expensive medicines for which Napoleon had paid without a thought as to the cost, their last doubts disappeared and the sorrow that they felt for their comrade's death was tempered by the thought that at least he had died happy. 🔊