← It is about this that I wish to speak to you. 🔊
← ", and the pigs had great difficulty in making them see that this was contrary to the spirit of Animalism. 🔊
← Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. 🔊
← There was much discussion as to what the battle should be called. In the end, it was named the Battle of the Cowshed, since that was where the ambush had been sprung. 🔊
← Mr. Jones's gun had been found lying in the mud, and it was known that there was a supply of cartridges in the farmhouse. 🔊
← (How these were to be procured, Snowball did not say.) But he maintained that it could all be done in a year. 🔊
← They kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones. 🔊
← Again the animals seemed to remember that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days, and again Squealer was able to convince them that this was not the case. 🔊
← 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? 🔊
← "What he has done since is different. But I believe that at the Battle of the Cowshed he was a good comrade." 🔊
← But still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. 🔊
← It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun. 🔊
← There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones's day. 🔊
← In nothing that he said or did was there any sign that his strength was not what it had been. 🔊
← It would be the first time that he had had leisure to study and improve his mind. 🔊
← Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand. 🔊
← It might be that their lives were hard and that not all of their hopes had been fulfilled; but they were conscious that they were not as other animals. 🔊
← But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?" 🔊
← 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. 🔊