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Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. 🔊

No animal shall kill any other animal. 7. All animals are equal. It was very neatly written, and except that "friend" was written "freind" and one of the "S's" was the wrong way round, the spelling was correct all the way through. 🔊

An impromptu celebration of the victory was held immediately. The flag was run up and Beasts of England was sung a number of times, then the sheep who had been killed was given a solemn funeral, a hawthorn bush being planted on her grave. 🔊

Since Jones had left the farm, until today, no animal had killed another animal. Not even a rat had been killed. 🔊

A FEW days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals rememberedor thought they rememberedthat the Sixth Commandment decreed "No animal shall kill any other animal." 🔊

Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause." 🔊

Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals' memory. But they saw now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was good reason for killing the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball. 🔊

He had flogged an old horse to death, he starved his cows, he had killed a dog by throwing it into the furnace, he amused himself in the evenings by making cocks fight with splinters of razorblade tied to their spurs. 🔊

A cow, three sheep, and two geese were killed, and nearly everyone was wounded. Even Napoleon, who was directing operations from the rear, had the tip of his tail chipped by a pellet. 🔊

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