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The harnessroom at the end of the stables was broken open; the bits, the noserings, the dogchains, the cruel knives with which Mr. Jones had been used to castrate the pigs and lambs, were all flung down the well. 🔊

His very first blow took a stablelad from Foxwood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud. 🔊

All the men were gone except one. Back in the yard Boxer was pawing with his hoof at the stablelad who lay face down in the mud, trying to turn him over. 🔊

She had taken to flight as soon as the gun went off. And when the others came back from looking for her, it was to find that the stablelad, who in fact was only stunned, had already recovered and made off. 🔊

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