← Sometimes the work was hard; the implements had been designed for human beings and not for animals, and it was a great drawback that no animal was able to use any tool that involved standing on his hind legs. 🔊
← But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron−shod hoofs like a stallion. 🔊
← There seemed no way of doing this except with picks and crowbars, which no animal could use, because no animal could stand on his hind legs. 🔊
← said Boxer. His knees were bleeding, he had lost a shoe and split his hoof, and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hind leg. 🔊
← Then they saw what Clover had seen. It was a pig walking on his hind legs. 🔊
← And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs. 🔊