1 Muriel," she said, "read me the Fourth Commandment.
2 Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced.
3 Mollie," she said, "I have something very serious to say to you.
4 Her coat was newly clipped and she wore a scarlet ribbon round her forelock.
5 Going back, the others found that she had remained behind in the best bedroom.
6 "It says, 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,"' she announced finally.
7 Finding herself unable to read more than individual letters, she fetched Muriel.
8 In the end, however, she was found hiding in her stall with her head buried among the hay in the manger.
9 Without saying anything to the others, she went to Mollie's stall and turned over the straw with her hoof.
10 But she always made such excellent excuses, and purred so affectionately, that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions.
11 On every kind of pretext she would run away from work and go to the drinking pool, where she would stand foolishly gazing at her own reflection in the water.
12 She was late for work every morning and excused herself by saying that she had overslept, and she complained of mysterious pains, although her appetite was excellent.
13 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.
14 If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race.
15 Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.
16 Then a sheep confessed to having urinated in the drinking pool--urged to do this, so she said, by Snowball--and two other sheep confessed to having murdered an old ram, an especially devoted follower of Napoleon, by chasing him round and round a bonfire when he was suffering from a cough.
17 If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of Major's speech.
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