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1 Last night, however, it came back to me in my dream.
2 Going back, the others found that she had remained behind in the best bedroom.
3 The pellets scored bloody streaks along Snowball's back, and a sheep dropped dead.
4 Then they filed back to the farm buildings and halted in silence outside the door of the farmhouse.
5 All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door.
6 Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back.
7 Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
8 Napoleon then led them back to the store-shed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody, with two biscuits for each dog.
9 He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
10 So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.
11 And when the others came back from looking for her, it was to find that the stable-lad, who in fact was only stunned, had already recovered and made off.
12 On Midsummer's Eve, which was a Saturday, Mr. Jones went into Willingdon and got so drunk at the Red Lion that he did not come back till midday on Sunday.
13 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.
14 When Mr. Jones got back he immediately went to sleep on the drawing-room sofa with the News of the World over his face, so that when evening came, the animals were still unfed.
15 He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof, and then would stand staring at the letters with his ears back, sometimes shaking his forelock, trying with all his might to remember what came next and never succeeding.
16 Their first act was to gallop in a body right round the boundaries of the farm, as though to make quite sure that no human being was hiding anywhere upon it; then they raced back to the farm buildings to wipe out the last traces of Jones's hated reign.
17 With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.
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