← And the behaviour of the cat was somewhat peculiar. It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat could never be found. 🔊
← Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. 🔊
← What does that mean, Mollie?" "He didn't! I wasn't! It isn't true!" 🔊
← The earth was like iron, and nothing could be done in the fields. Many meetings were held in the big barn, and the pigs occupied themselves with planning out the work of the coming season. 🔊
← (How these were to be procured, Snowball did not say.) But he maintained that it could all be done in a year. 🔊
← As usual, Snowball and Napoleon were in disagreement. According to Napoleon, what the animals must do was to procure firearms and train themselves in the use of them. 🔊
← They kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones. 🔊
← If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less. 🔊
← Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? 🔊
← For a long time the quarry was full of snowdrifts and nothing could be done. 🔊
← "I do not believe that Snowball was a traitor at the beginning," he said finally. 🔊
← "What he has done since is different. But I believe that at the Battle of the Cowshed he was a good comrade." 🔊
← There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones's day. 🔊
← Boldly enough the animals sallied forth to meet them, but this time they did not have the easy victory that they had had in the Battle of the Cowshed. 🔊
← Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out. 🔊
← In nothing that he said or did was there any sign that his strength was not what it had been. 🔊
← The animals felt a little uneasy at this. Except for Mollie and Snowball, no other animal had ever left the farm, and they did not like to think of their sick comrade in the hands of human beings. 🔊
← "Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?" That gave the animals pause, and there was a hush. 🔊
← After that it did not seem strange when next day the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters. 🔊
← He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county. 🔊