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In return for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare rations and a stall? 🔊

There was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. She knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. 🔊

But at this moment the four pigeons, who had been sent out on the day before, returned, one of them bearing a scrap of paper from Pilkington. 🔊

Slowly the breeze drifted it away. The windmill had ceased to exist! At this sight the animals' courage returned to them. 🔊

In the evening he returned to the farmhouse himself, but, as it was warm weather, told the sheep to stay where they were. 🔊

It was just after the sheep had returned, on a pleasant evening when the animals had finished work and were making their way back to the farm buildings, that the terrified neighing of a horse sounded from the yard. 🔊

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