← ", and the pigs had great difficulty in making them see that this was contrary to the spirit of Animalism. 🔊
← The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. 🔊
← This was to be the name of the farm from now onwards. After this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be set against the end wall of the big barn. 🔊
← None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A. 🔊
← Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. 🔊
← There was much discussion as to what the battle should be called. In the end, it was named the Battle of the Cowshed, since that was where the ambush had been sprung. 🔊
← Apart from the disputes over the windmill, there was the question of the defence of the farm. 🔊
← At last the day came when Snowball's plans were completed. At the Meeting on the following Sunday the question of whether or not to begin work on the windmill was to be put to the vote. 🔊
← In a moment he was out of the door and they were after him. Too amazed and frightened to speak, all the animals crowded through the door to watch the chase. 🔊
← The rest of the animals sat facing them in the main body of the barn. 🔊
← It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. 🔊
← "You have heard then, comrades," he said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? 🔊
← "What he has done since is different. But I believe that at the Battle of the Cowshed he was a good comrade." 🔊
← It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun. 🔊
← The whole of the big pasture, including the windmill, was in the hands of the enemy. 🔊
← And the animals heard, from the direction of the farm buildings, the solemn booming of a gun. 🔊
← Apart from the regular work of the farm, and the rebuilding of the windmill, there was the schoolhouse for the young pigs, which was started in March. 🔊
← However, Benjamin and Clover could only be with Boxer after working hours, and it was in the middle of the day when the van came to take him away. 🔊
← Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand. 🔊
← It might be that their lives were hard and that not all of their hopes had been fulfilled; but they were conscious that they were not as other animals. 🔊