1 I have something else to say first.
2 For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune.
3 Unable at first to speak, they stood gazing mournfully at the litter of fallen stone.
4 As the human beings approached the farm buildings, Snowball launched his first attack.
5 The other farmers sympathised in principle, but they did not at first give him much help.
6 For the first time since the expulsion of Jones, there was something resembling a rebellion.
7 At first it was a little difficult to see how this fitted in with his being on Jones's side.
8 At first they pretended to laugh to scorn the idea of animals managing a farm for themselves.
9 His very first blow took a stable-lad from Foxwood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud.
10 But the problem the animals could not at first solve was how to break up the stone into pieces of suitable size.
11 The birds at first objected, since it seemed to them that they also had two legs, but Snowball proved to them that this was not so.
12 Finally he decided to be content with the first four letters, and used to write them out once or twice every day to refresh his memory.
13 These scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old Major first stirred them to rebellion.
14 Many years ago, when I was a little pig, my mother and the other sows used to sing an old song of which they knew only the tune and the first three words.
15 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.
16 The animals listened first to Napoleon, then to Snowball, and could not make up their minds which was right; indeed, they always found themselves in agreement with the one who was speaking at the moment.
17 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.
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