← Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. 🔊
← Frederick had wanted to pay for the timber with something called a cheque, which, it seemed, was a piece of paper with a promise to pay written upon it. 🔊
← Already Frederick had paid up; and the sum he had paid was just enough to buy the machinery for the windmill. 🔊
← Once again Clover and Benjamin warned him to take care of his health, but Boxer paid no attention. 🔊
← And when Squealer went on to give further graphic details of Boxer's death−bed, the admirable care he had received, and the expensive medicines for which Napoleon had paid without a thought as to the cost, their last doubts disappeared and the sorrow that they felt for their comrade's death was tempered by the thought that at least he had died happy. 🔊