← Every Sunday morning at ten o'clock the animals assembled in the big barn to receive their orders for the week. 🔊
← It was nearly nine o'clock when Squealer made his appearance, walking slowly and dejectedly, his eyes dull, his tail hanging limply behind him, and with every appearance of being seriously ill. 🔊
← At eleven o'clock Squealer came out to make another announcement. As his last act upon earth, Comrade Napoleon had pronounced a solemn decree: the drinking of alcohol was to be punished by death. 🔊
← One night at about twelve o'clock there was a loud crash in the yard, and the animals rushed out of their stalls. 🔊
← That night there was the sound of uproarious singing, which was followed by what sounded like a violent quarrel and ended at about eleven o'clock with a tremendous crash of glass. 🔊