← Napoleon sent for pots of black and white paint and led the way down to the five−barred gate that gave on to the main road. 🔊
← Then Snowball (for it was Snowball who was best at writing) took a brush between the two knuckles of his trotter, painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar of the gate and in its place painted ANIMAL FARM. 🔊
← With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to balance himself on a ladder) Snowball climbed up and set to work, with Squealer a few rungs below him holding the paint−pot. 🔊
← "Now, comrades," cried Snowball, throwing down the paint−brush, "to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do." 🔊
← First came the hoisting of the flag. Snowball had found in the harness−room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white. 🔊
← She was between the shafts of a smart dogcart painted red and black, which was standing outside a public−house. 🔊
← In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals' backs. 🔊
← It was surmounted by a portrait of Napoleon, in profile, executed by Squealer in white paint. 🔊
← Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint−brush, and an overturned pot of white paint. 🔊
← But the explanation was really very simple. The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. 🔊