← 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. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← 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. 🔊