← "Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. 🔊
← "Comrades," said Snowball, "it is half−past six and we have a long day before us. 🔊
← When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say. 🔊
← (How these were to be procured, Snowball did not say.) But he maintained that it could all be done in a year. 🔊
← Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on−that is, badly. 🔊
← It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. 🔊
← "You have heard then, comrades," he said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? 🔊
← The rats, which had been troublesome that winter, were also said to be in league with Snowball. 🔊
← "But he was wounded," said Boxer. "We all saw him running with blood." "That was part of the arrangement!" 🔊
← "I do not believe that Snowball was a traitor at the beginning," he said finally. 🔊
← In nothing that he said or did was there any sign that his strength was not what it had been. 🔊
← Squealer came to announce the news to the others. He had, he said, been present during Boxer's last hours. 🔊
← It had come to his knowledge, he said, that a foolish and wicked rumour had been circulated at the time of Boxer's removal. 🔊
← Squealer was with them for the greater part of every day. He was, he said, teaching them to sing a new song, for which privacy was needed. 🔊
← But before doing so, there were a few words that he felt it incumbent upon him to say. 🔊
← It was a source of great satisfaction to him, he said−and, he was sure, to all others present−to feel that a long period of mistrust and misunderstanding had now come to an end. 🔊
← He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county. 🔊
← And now, he said finally, he would ask the company to rise to their feet and make certain that their glasses were full. 🔊
← Like all of Napoleon's speeches, it was short and to the point. He too, he said, was happy that the period of misunderstanding was at an end. 🔊
← The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. 🔊