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1 A little way down the pasture there was a knoll that commanded a view of most of the farm.
2 The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away.
3 The dogs learned to read fairly well, but were not interested in reading anything except the Seven Commandments.
4 All the animals nodded in complete agreement, and the cleverer ones at once began to learn the Commandments by heart.
5 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.
6 It was also found that the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens, and ducks, were unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart.
7 Napoleon approved of this poem and caused it to be inscribed on the wall of the big barn, at the opposite end from the Seven Commandments.
8 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.
9 They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments.
10 But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong.
11 These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after.
12 Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm.
13 And when they heard the gun booming and saw the green flag fluttering at the masthead, their hearts swelled with imperishable pride, and the talk turned always towards the old heroic days, the expulsion of Jones, the writing of the Seven Commandments, the great battles in which the human invaders had been defeated.