← "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. 🔊
← They met with many difficulties−for instance, later in the year, when they harvested the corn, they had to tread it out in the ancient style and blow away the chaff with their breath, since the farm possessed no threshing machine−but the pigs with their cleverness and Boxer with his tremendous muscles always pulled them through. 🔊
← From morning to night he was pushing and pulling, always at the spot where the work was hardest. 🔊
← The animals slain in the battle were given a solemn funeral. Boxer and Clover pulled the wagon which served as a hearse, and Napoleon himself walked at the head of the procession. 🔊