← And you, Clover, where are those four foals you bore, who should have been the support and pleasure of your old age? 🔊
← This was to be the name of the farm from now onwards. After this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be set against the end wall of the big barn. 🔊
← From morning to night he was pushing and pulling, always at the spot where the work was hardest. 🔊
← The mystery of where the milk went to was soon cleared up. It was mixed every day into the pigs' mash. 🔊
← "Where is Mollie?" exclaimed somebody. Mollie in fact was missing. For a moment there was great alarm; it was feared that the men might have harmed her in some way, or even carried her off with them. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately. 🔊
← Napoleon, with the dogs following him, now mounted on to the raised portion of the floor where Major had previously stood to deliver his speech. 🔊
← But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? 🔊
← By this time the weather had broken and the spring ploughing had begun. The shed where Snowball had drawn his plans of the windmill had been shut up and it was assumed that the plans had been rubbed off the floor. 🔊
← They had made their way on to the little knoll where the half−finished windmill stood, and with one accord they all lay down as though huddling together for warmth−Clover, Muriel, Benjamin, the cows, the sheep, and a whole flock of geese and hens−everyone, indeed, except the cat, who had suddenly disappeared just before Napoleon ordered the animals to assemble. 🔊
← The animals huddled about Clover, not speaking. The knoll where they were lying gave them a wide prospect across the countryside. 🔊
← Most of Animal Farm was within their view−the long pasture stretching down to the main road, the hayfield, the spinney, the drinking pool, the ploughed fields where the young wheat was thick and green, and the red roofs of the farm buildings with the smoke curling from the chimneys. 🔊
← When they got up again, a huge cloud of black smoke was hanging where the windmill had been. 🔊
← And for a little while they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood. 🔊
← It was a moonlit night. At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. 🔊
← About half the animals on the farm rushed out to the knoll where the windmill stood. 🔊
← And about half an hour later, when Boxer had somewhat recovered, he was with difficulty got on to his feet, and managed to limp back to his stall, where Clover and Benjamin had prepared a good bed of straw for him. 🔊
← In the evening he returned to the farmhouse himself, but, as it was warm weather, told the sheep to stay where they were. 🔊
← Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written. 🔊