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They were all slain on the spot. And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones. 🔊

But the Rebellion is now completed. The execution of the traitors this afternoon was the final act. 🔊

A FEW days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals rememberedor thought they rememberedthat the Sixth Commandment decreed "No animal shall kill any other animal." 🔊

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