← Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. 🔊
← Their most faithful disciples were the two cart−horses, Boxer and Clover. These two had great difficulty in thinking anything out for themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers, they absorbed everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other animals by simple arguments. 🔊
← Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple. The horses carried it off in cart−loads, the sheep dragged single blocks, even Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess−cart and did their share. 🔊
← But the explanation was really very simple. The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. 🔊