← Each had his own following, and there were some violent debates. At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. 🔊
← At last the day came when Snowball's plans were completed. At the Meeting on the following Sunday the question of whether or not to begin work on the windmill was to be put to the vote. 🔊
← By the evening, however, Napoleon appeared to be somewhat better, and the following morning Squealer was able to tell them that he was well on the way to recovery. 🔊
← Boxer's twelfth birthday was due in the late summer of the following year. Meanwhile life was hard. 🔊
← But no warm mash appeared, and on the following Sunday it was announced that from now onwards all barley would be reserved for the pigs. 🔊
← Napoleon himself appeared at the meeting on the following Sunday morning and pronounced a short oration in Boxer's honour. 🔊
← No one stirred in the farmhouse before noon on the following day, and the word went round that from somewhere or other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whisky. 🔊