← As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. 🔊
← After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey. Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. 🔊
← This was to be the name of the farm from now onwards. After this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be set against the end wall of the big barn. 🔊
← None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A. 🔊
← Obviously they were going to attempt the recapture of the farm. This had long been expected, and all preparations had been made. 🔊
← In the long pasture, not far from the farm buildings, there was a small knoll which was the highest point on the farm. 🔊
← Apart from the disputes over the windmill, there was the question of the defence of the farm. 🔊
← Napoleon ended his speech with his usual cry of "Long live Animal Farm!" and after the singing of Beasts of England the animals were dismissed. 🔊
← Afterwards Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals' minds at rest. 🔊
← It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. 🔊
← Never had the farm−and with a kind of surprise they remembered that it was their own farm, every inch of it their own property−appeared to the animals so desirable a place. 🔊
← And the animals heard, from the direction of the farm buildings, the solemn booming of a gun. 🔊
← The young pigs were piebald, and as Napoleon was the only boar on the farm, it was possible to guess at their parentage. 🔊
← Apart from the regular work of the farm, and the rebuilding of the windmill, there was the schoolhouse for the young pigs, which was started in March. 🔊
← About half the animals on the farm rushed out to the knoll where the windmill stood. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← They were still the only farm in the whole county−in all England!−owned and operated by animals. 🔊
← It was just after the sheep had returned, on a pleasant evening when the animals had finished work and were making their way back to the farm buildings, that the terrified neighing of a horse sounded from the yard. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Mr. Pilkington had referred throughout to "Animal Farm." He could not of course know−for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it−that the name "Animal Farm" had been abolished. 🔊