1 The situation was quite out of their control.
2 I had known that tune in my infancy, but it had long since passed out of my mind.
3 Now, as it turned out, the Rebellion was achieved much earlier and more easily than anyone had expected.
4 It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way.
5 Unfortunately, the uproar awoke Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed, making sure that there was a fox in the yard.
6 And then, after a few preliminary tries, the whole farm burst out into 'Beasts of England' in tremendous unison.
7 As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings.
8 Meanwhile the animals had chased Jones and his men out on to the road and slammed the five-barred gate behind them.
9 The next moment he and his four men were in the store-shed with whips in their hands, lashing out in all directions.
10 The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering to feed the animals.
11 You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year.
12 While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.
13 When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest.
14 Mrs. Jones looked out of the bedroom window, saw what was happening, hurriedly flung a few possessions into a carpet bag, and slipped out of the farm by another way.
15 They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.
16 These two had great difficulty in thinking anything out for themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers, they absorbed everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other animals by simple arguments.
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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