← I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired. 🔊
← For that day we all must labour, Though we die before it break; Cows and horses, geese and turkeys, All must toil for freedom's sake. 🔊
← THREE nights later old Major died peacefully in his sleep. His body was buried at the foot of the orchard. 🔊
← He claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain, to which all animals went when they died. 🔊
← At the graveside Snowball made a little speech, emphasising the need for all animals to be ready to die for Animal Farm if need be. 🔊
← Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Presently the tumult died down. The four pigs waited, trembling, with guilt written on every line of their countenances. 🔊
← A FEW days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered−or thought they remembered−that the Sixth Commandment decreed "No animal shall kill any other animal." 🔊
← Comrade Napoleon was dying! 🔊
← But alas! his strength had left him; and in a few moments the sound of drumming hoofs grew fainter and died away. 🔊
← Boxer was never seen again. Three days later it was announced that he had died in the hospital at Willingdon, in spite of receiving every attention a horse could have. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Muriel was dead; Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher were dead. Jones too was dead−he had died in an inebriates' home in another part of the country. 🔊
← When the cheering had died down, Napoleon, who had remained on his feet, intimated that he too had a few words to say. 🔊