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Then they filed back to the farm buildings and halted in silence outside the door of the farmhouse. 🔊

The pellets scored bloody streaks along Snowball's back, and a sheep dropped dead. Without halting for an instant, Snowball flung his fifteen stone against Jones's legs. 🔊

Suddenly he halted as though his mind were made up. "Comrades," he said quietly, "do you know who is responsible for this? 🔊

On it was pencilled the words: "Serves you right." Meanwhile Frederick and his men had halted about the windmill. 🔊

And for a little while they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood. 🔊

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