← What does that mean, Mollie?" "He didn't! I wasn't! It isn't true!" 🔊
← (How these were to be procured, Snowball did not say.) But he maintained that it could all be done in a year. 🔊
← In a moment he was out of the door and they were after him. Too amazed and frightened to speak, all the animals crowded through the door to watch the chase. 🔊
← They kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones. 🔊
← Napoleon ended his speech with his usual cry of "Long live Animal Farm!" and after the singing of Beasts of England the animals were dismissed. 🔊
← It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. 🔊
← "You have heard then, comrades," he said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? 🔊
← "I do not believe that Snowball was a traitor at the beginning," he said finally. 🔊
← "What he has done since is different. But I believe that at the Battle of the Cowshed he was a good comrade." 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← It was announced that the battle would be called the Battle of the Windmill, and that Napoleon had created a new decoration, the Order of the Green Banner, which he had conferred upon himself. 🔊
← He called the animals together and told them that he had a terrible piece of news to impart. 🔊
← In nothing that he said or did was there any sign that his strength was not what it had been. 🔊
← It would be the first time that he had had leisure to study and improve his mind. 🔊
← However, Benjamin and Clover could only be with Boxer after working hours, and it was in the middle of the day when the van came to take him away. 🔊
← Squealer came to announce the news to the others. He had, he said, been present during Boxer's last hours. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county. 🔊
← Like all of Napoleon's speeches, it was short and to the point. He too, he said, was happy that the period of misunderstanding was at an end. 🔊
← 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. 🔊