← Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. 🔊
← What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! 🔊
← THREE nights later old Major died peacefully in his sleep. His body was buried at the foot of the orchard. 🔊
← For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune. Their first act was to gallop in a body right round the boundaries of the farm, as though to make quite sure that no human being was hiding anywhere upon it; then they raced back to the farm buildings to wipe out the last traces of Jones's hated reign. 🔊
← The rest of the animals sat facing them in the main body of the barn. 🔊
← Nine hens had died in the meantime. Their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. 🔊
← When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. 🔊
← The animals' blood boiled with rage when they heard of these things being done to their comrades, and sometimes they clamoured to be allowed to go out in a body and attack Pinchfield Farm, drive out the humans, and set the animals free. 🔊
← A mighty cry for vengeance went up, and without waiting for further orders they charged forth in a body and made straight for the enemy. 🔊