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2 Almost overnight we could become rich and free.
3 This was more than the hungry animals could bear.
4 As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly.
5 The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white.
6 Clover learnt the whole alphabet, but could not put words together.
7 Benjamin could read as well as any pig, but never exercised his faculty.
8 For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune.
9 But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty.
10 It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat could never be found.
11 The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own.
12 The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away.
13 It was as though they had never seen these things before, and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own.
14 But it was noticed that these two were never in agreement: whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted on to oppose it.
15 She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.
16 Muriel, the goat, could read somewhat better than the dogs, and sometimes used to read to the others in the evenings from scraps of newspaper which she found on the rubbish heap.
17 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.
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