← You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year. 🔊
← Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple. The horses carried it off in cart−loads, the sheep dragged single blocks, even Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess−cart and did their share. 🔊
← It was almost half built now. After the harvest there was a stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever, thinking it well worth while to plod to and fro all day with blocks of stone if by doing so they could raise the walls another foot. 🔊
← Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball. If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done it, and when the key of the store−shed was lost, the whole farm was convinced that Snowball had thrown it down the well. 🔊