← Such is the natural life of a pig. But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. 🔊
← Rings shall vanish from our noses, And the harness from our back, Bit and spur shall rust forever, Cruel whips no more shall crack. 🔊
← The harness−room at the end of the stables was broken open; the bits, the nose−rings, the dog−chains, the cruel knives with which Mr. Jones had been used to castrate the pigs and lambs, were all flung down the well. 🔊
← Some progress was made in the dry frosty weather that followed, but it was cruel work, and the animals could not feel so hopeful about it as they had felt before. 🔊
← They were shaken and miserable. They did not know which was more shocking−the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed. 🔊
← This time they did not heed the cruel pellets that swept over them like hail. 🔊