← His very first blow took a stable−lad from Foxwood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud. 🔊
← The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun. 🔊
← After the hoisting of the flag, the animals were required to file past the skull in a reverent manner before entering the barn. 🔊
← This was to be suppressed. There had also been a very strange custom, whose origin was unknown, of marching every Sunday morning past a boar's skull which was nailed to a post in the garden. 🔊
← This, too, would be suppressed, and the skull had already been buried. His visitors might have observed, too, the green flag which flew from the masthead. 🔊