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Hitherto the animals on the farm had had a rather foolish custom of addressing one another as "Comrade." 🔊

This was to be suppressed. There had also been a very strange custom, whose origin was unknown, of marching every Sunday morning past a boar's skull which was nailed to a post in the garden. 🔊

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