harness

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Rings shall vanish from our noses, And the harness from our back, Bit and spur shall rust forever, Cruel whips no more shall crack. 🔊

The harnessroom at the end of the stables was broken open; the bits, the noserings, the dogchains, the cruel knives with which Mr. Jones had been used to castrate the pigs and lambs, were all flung down the well. 🔊

Boxer and Clover would harness themselves to the cutter or the horserake (no bits or reins were needed in these days, of course) and tramp steadily round and round the field with a pig walking behind and calling out "Gee up, comrade!" 🔊

First came the hoisting of the flag. Snowball had found in the harnessroom an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white. 🔊

The pigs had set aside the harnessroom as a headquarters for themselves. Here, in the evenings, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other necessary arts from books which they had brought out of the farmhouse. 🔊

He took them up into a loft which could only be reached by a ladder from the harnessroom, and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence. 🔊

The animals had assumed as a matter of course that these would be shared out equally; one day, however, the order went forth that all the windfalls were to be collected and brought to the harnessroom for the use of the pigs. 🔊

It consisted of a brass medal (they were really some old horsebrasses which had been found in the harnessroom), to be worn on Sundays and holidays. 🔊

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