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1 And in many ways the animal method of doing things was more efficient and saved labour.
2 Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin.
3 And thereafter, he declared, so much labour would be saved that the animals would only need to work three days a week.
4 In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals' backs.
5 But still, neither pigs nor dogs produced any food by their own labour; and there were very many of them, and their appetites were always good.
6 He saw ahead of him the heavy labour of rebuilding the windmill from the foundations, and already in imagination he braced himself for the task.
7 Comrades," he said, "I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself.
8 And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land, which saved a lot of labour on the upkeep of hedges and gates.
9 To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour.
10 They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the pool, they laboured in the fields; in winter they were troubled by the cold, and in summer by the flies.
11 He talked learnedly about field drains, silage, and basic slag, and had worked out a complicated scheme for all the animals to drop their dung directly in the fields, at a different spot every day, to save the labour of cartage.