← It is about this that I wish to speak to you. 🔊
← The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. 🔊
← At this some of the other animals murmured, but it was no use. All the pigs were in full agreement on this point, even Snowball and Napoleon. 🔊
← Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. 🔊
← When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say. 🔊
← There was much discussion as to what the battle should be called. In the end, it was named the Battle of the Cowshed, since that was where the ambush had been sprung. 🔊
← Mr. Jones's gun had been found lying in the mud, and it was known that there was a supply of cartridges in the farmhouse. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. 🔊
← But still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. 🔊
← It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun. 🔊
← There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones's day. 🔊
← "But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two years!" 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← As for the others, their life, so far as they knew, was as it had always been. 🔊
← It might be that their lives were hard and that not all of their hopes had been fulfilled; but they were conscious that they were not as other animals. 🔊
← But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?" 🔊
← 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. 🔊