← It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way. 🔊
← The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men. 🔊
← And so, almost before they knew what was happening, the Rebellion had been successfully carried through: Jones was expelled, and the Manor Farm was theirs. 🔊
← In a very little while the animals had destroyed everything that reminded them of Mr. Jones. 🔊
← "What is going to happen to all that milk?" said someone. "Jones used sometimes to mix some of it in our mash," said one of the hens. 🔊
← In the end they finished the harvest in two days' less time than it had usually taken Jones and his men. 🔊
← Boxer was the admiration of everybody. He had been a hard worker even in Jones's time, but now he seemed more like three horses than one; there were days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders. 🔊
← Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. 🔊
← Jones and all his men, with half a dozen others from Foxwood and Pinchfield, had entered the five−barred gate and were coming up the cart−track that led to the farm. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less. 🔊
← They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county. 🔊
← He was Jones's secret agent all the time. It has all been proved by documents which he left behind him and which we have only just discovered. 🔊
← At first it was a little difficult to see how this fitted in with his being on Jones's side. 🔊
← There was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. She knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← For the time being, certainly, it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations (Squealer always spoke of it as a "readjustment," never as a "reduction"), but in comparison with the days of Jones, the improvement was enormous. 🔊
← The animals believed every word of it. Truth to tell, Jones and all he stood for had almost faded out of their memories. 🔊