← No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. 🔊
← Such is the natural life of a pig. But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. 🔊
← All were agreed that no animal must ever live there. The animals had their breakfast, and then Snowball and Napoleon called them together again. 🔊
← Sometimes the work was hard; the implements had been designed for human beings and not for animals, and it was a great drawback that no animal was able to use any tool that involved standing on his hind legs. 🔊
← At this some of the other animals murmured, but it was no use. All the pigs were in full agreement on this point, even Snowball and Napoleon. 🔊
← When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say. 🔊
← Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on−that is, badly. 🔊
← By the time he had finished speaking, there was no doubt as to which way the vote would go. 🔊
← If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less. 🔊
← And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either. 🔊
← "No more delays, comrades!" cried Napoleon when the footprints had been examined. "There is work to be done. 🔊
← All this while no more had been seen of Snowball. He was rumoured to be hiding on one of the neighbouring farms, either Foxwood or Pinchfield. 🔊
← There was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. She knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. 🔊
← And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this. 🔊
← There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones's day. 🔊
← They had thought the Fifth Commandment was "No animal shall drink alcohol," but there were two words that they had forgotten. 🔊
← In any case he had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were not in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be. 🔊
← The animals felt a little uneasy at this. Except for Mollie and Snowball, no other animal had ever left the farm, and they did not like to think of their sick comrade in the hands of human beings. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. 🔊