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The cows lowed it, the dogs whined it, the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it, the ducks quacked it. 🔊

But at this moment the three cows, who had seemed uneasy for some time past, set up a loud lowing. 🔊

Moreover, the walls were twice as thick as before. Nothing short of explosives would lay them low this time! 🔊

Sure enough, there in the yard was a large closed van, drawn by two horses, with lettering on its side and a slylooking man in a lowcrowned bowler hat sitting on the driver's seat. 🔊

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. 🔊

After much choking, during which his various chins turned purple, he managed to get it out: "If you have your lower animals to contend with," he said, "we have our lower classes!" 🔊

This bon mot set the table in a roar; and Mr. Pilkington once again congratulated the pigs on the low rations, the long working hours, and the general absence of pampering which he had observed on Animal Farm. 🔊

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