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At last they could stand it no longer. One of the cows broke in the door of the storeshed with her horn and all the animals began to help themselves from the bins. 🔊

It was just then that Mr. Jones woke up. The next moment he and his four men were in the storeshed with whips in their hands, lashing out in all directions. 🔊

Napoleon then led them back to the storeshed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody, with two biscuits for each dog. 🔊

By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs. 🔊

By the autumn the animals were tired but happy. They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything. 🔊

In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the storeshed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal. 🔊

On some suitable pretext Whymper was led through the storeshed and allowed to catch a glimpse of the bins. 🔊

Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball. If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done it, and when the key of the storeshed was lost, the whole farm was convinced that Snowball had thrown it down the well. 🔊

His twelfth birthday was approaching. He did not care what happened so long as a good store of stone was accumulated before he went on pension. 🔊

There is a pretty good store of stone accumulated. I had only another month to go in any case. 🔊

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