1 Each had his own following, and there were some violent debates.
2 All the animals followed, crying out at the tops of their voices.
3 Boxer's twelfth birthday was due in the late summer of the following year.
4 The stormy weather was followed by sleet and snow, and then by a hard frost which did not break till well into February.
5 Napoleon himself appeared at the meeting on the following Sunday morning and pronounced a short oration in Boxer's honour.
6 At the Meeting on the following Sunday the question of whether or not to begin work on the windmill was to be put to the vote.
7 But no warm mash appeared, and on the following Sunday it was announced that from now onwards all barley would be reserved for the pigs.
8 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.
9 With his dogs in attendance he set out and made a careful tour of inspection of the farm buildings, the other animals following at a respectful distance.
10 The animals were at breakfast when the look-outs came racing in with the news that Frederick and his followers had already come through the five-barred gate.
11 Some progress was made in the dry frosty weather that followed, but it was cruel work, and the animals could not feel so hopeful about it as they had felt before.
12 By the evening, however, Napoleon appeared to be somewhat better, and the following morning Squealer was able to tell them that he was well on the way to recovery.
13 That night there was the sound of uproarious singing, which was followed by what sounded like a violent quarrel and ended at about eleven o'clock with a tremendous crash of glass.
14 No one stirred in the farmhouse before noon on the following day, and the word went round that from somewhere or other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whisky.
15 Then a sheep confessed to having urinated in the drinking pool--urged to do this, so she said, by Snowball--and two other sheep confessed to having murdered an old ram, an especially devoted follower of Napoleon, by chasing him round and round a bonfire when he was suffering from a cough.