← "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. 🔊
← You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year? 🔊
← And what has happened to that milk which should have been breeding up sturdy calves? 🔊
← The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering to feed the animals. 🔊
← They had not been milked for twenty−four hours, and their udders were almost bursting. 🔊
← After a little thought, the pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows fairly successfully, their trotters being well adapted to this task. 🔊
← Soon there were five buckets of frothing creamy milk at which many of the animals looked with considerable interest. 🔊
← "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. 🔊
← "Never mind the milk, comrades!" cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. "That will be attended to. 🔊
← Forward, comrades! The hay is waiting." So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared. 🔊
← The mystery of where the milk went to was soon cleared up. It was mixed every day into the pigs' mash. 🔊
← Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. 🔊
← Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well−being of a pig. 🔊
← Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. 🔊
← The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious. So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone. 🔊
← He stole the corn, he upset the milk−pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees. 🔊
← The cows declared unanimously that Snowball crept into their stalls and milked them in their sleep. 🔊