← When Mr. Jones got back he immediately went to sleep on the drawing−room sofa with the News of the World over his face, so that when evening came, the animals were still unfed. 🔊
← "Now, comrades," cried Snowball, throwing down the paint−brush, "to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do." 🔊
← HOW they toiled and sweated to get the hay in! But their efforts were rewarded, for the harvest was an even bigger success than they had hoped. 🔊
← Nobody shirked−or almost nobody. Mollie, it was true, was not good at getting up in the mornings, and had a way of leaving work early on the ground that there was a stone in her hoof. 🔊
← None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A. 🔊
← The blackbirds whistled it in the hedges, the pigeons cooed it in the elms, it got into the din of the smithies and the tune of the church bells. 🔊
← They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county. 🔊
← And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either. 🔊
← They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. 🔊
← Do you not remember how, just at the moment when Jones and his men had got inside the yard, Snowball suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him? 🔊
← Having got there, he collected two successive loads of stone and dragged them down to the windmill before retiring for the night. 🔊
← The pile of timber was still unsold. Of the two, Frederick was the more anxious to get hold of it, but he would not offer a reasonable price. 🔊
← When they got up again, a huge cloud of black smoke was hanging where the windmill had been. 🔊
← It was a savage, bitter battle. The men fired again and again, and, when the animals got to close quarters, lashed out with their sticks and their heavy boots. 🔊
← They saw that they were in danger of being surrounded. Frederick shouted to his men to get out while the going was good, and the next moment the cowardly enemy was running for dear life. 🔊
← The animals chased them right down to the bottom of the field, and got in some last kicks at them as they forced their way through the thorn hedge. 🔊
← He is lying on his side and can't get up!" 🔊
← And about half an hour later, when Boxer had somewhat recovered, he was with difficulty got on to his feet, and managed to limp back to his stall, where Clover and Benjamin had prepared a good bed of straw for him. 🔊
← "Boxer!" cried Clover in a terrible voice. "Boxer! Get out! Get out quickly! They're taking you to your death!" 🔊
← All the animals took up the cry of "Get out, Boxer, get out!" But the van was already gathering speed and drawing away from them. 🔊