← He claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain, to which all animals went when they died. 🔊
← In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← He was quite unchanged, still did no work, and talked in the same strain as ever about Sugarcandy Mountain. 🔊
← "Up there, comrades," he would say solemnly, pointing to the sky with his large beak−"up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud that you can see−there it lies, Sugarcandy Mountain, that happy country where we poor animals shall rest for ever from our labours!" 🔊
← They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not working, with an allowance of a gill of beer a day. 🔊