← All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door. 🔊
← The pigs had an even harder struggle to counteract the lies put about by Moses, the tame raven. 🔊
← Moses, who was Mr. Jones's especial pet, was a spy and a tale−bearer, but he was also a clever talker. 🔊
← It was situated somewhere up in the sky, a little distance beyond the clouds, Moses said. 🔊
← The animals hated Moses because he told tales and did no work, but some of them believed in Sugarcandy Mountain, and the pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that there was no such place. 🔊
← For whole days at a time he would lounge in his Windsor chair in the kitchen, reading the newspapers, drinking, and occasionally feeding Moses on crusts of bread soaked in beer. 🔊
← Moses sprang off his perch and flapped after her, croaking loudly. Meanwhile the animals had chased Jones and his men out on to the road and slammed the five−barred gate behind them. 🔊
← In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years. 🔊
← A thing that was difficult to determine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses. 🔊
← YEARS passed. The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by. A time came when there was no one who remembered the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of the pigs. 🔊