← But they woke at dawn as usual, and suddenly remembering the glorious thing that had happened, they all raced out into the pasture together. 🔊
← It was as though they had never seen these things before, and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own. 🔊
← Even when it was resolved−a thing no one could object to in itself−to set aside the small paddock behind the orchard as a home of rest for animals who were past work, there was a stormy debate over the correct retiring age for each class of animal. 🔊
← Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. 🔊
← The whole thing would be over in a fortnight, they said. They put it about that the animals on the Manor Farm (they insisted on calling it the Manor Farm; they would not tolerate the name "Animal Farm") were perpetually fighting among themselves and were also rapidly starving to death. 🔊
← Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying: "If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right." 🔊
← And in many ways the animal method of doing things was more efficient and saved labour. 🔊
← Suddenly, early in the spring, an alarming thing was discovered. Snowball was secretly frequenting the farm by night! 🔊
← "Comrades!" cried Squealer, making little nervous skips, "a most terrible thing has been discovered. Snowball has sold himself to Frederick of Pinchfield Farm, who is even now plotting to attack us and take our farm away from us! 🔊
← They all cowered silently in their places, seeming to know in advance that some terrible thing was about to happen. 🔊
← Finally he said: "I do not understand it. I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm. 🔊
← There was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. She knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. 🔊
← The animals' blood boiled with rage when they heard of these things being done to their comrades, and sometimes they clamoured to be allowed to go out in a body and attack Pinchfield Farm, drive out the humans, and set the animals free. 🔊
← You do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty thing that we have done. The enemy was in occupation of this very ground that we stand upon. 🔊
← A thing that was difficult to determine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses. 🔊
← Many animals had been born to whom the Rebellion was only a dim tradition, passed on by word of mouth, and others had been bought who had never heard mention of such a thing before their arrival. 🔊
← Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones's expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now. 🔊
← The animals found the problem insoluble; in any case, they had little time for speculating on such things now. 🔊
← Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse−hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life. 🔊
← But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. 🔊