← Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. 🔊
← The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men. 🔊
← Even the stupidest of them had already picked up the tune and a few of the words, and as for the clever ones, such as the pigs and dogs, they had the entire song by heart within a few minutes. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← The plans, however, had all been prepared, down to the last detail. A special committee of pigs had been at work upon them for the past three weeks. 🔊
← They could only be traced for a few yards, but appeared to lead to a hole in the hedge. 🔊
← For a long time the quarry was full of snowdrifts and nothing could be done. 🔊
← The plot was for Snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight and leave the field to the enemy. 🔊
← When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. 🔊
← But still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. 🔊
← It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun. 🔊
← Two days later the animals were called together for a special meeting in the barn. 🔊
← "But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two years!" 🔊
← But for the first time it occurred to him that he was eleven years old and that perhaps his great muscles were not quite what they had once been. 🔊
← For the time being, the young pigs were given their instruction by Napoleon himself in the farmhouse kitchen. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← As for the others, their life, so far as they knew, was as it had always been. 🔊
← Squealer was with them for the greater part of every day. He was, he said, teaching them to sing a new song, for which privacy was needed. 🔊
← 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. 🔊