1 For the next two days Boxer remained in his stall.
2 A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded.
3 In the evenings she lay in his stall and talked to him, while Benjamin kept the flies off him.
4 The cows declared unanimously that Snowball crept into their stalls and milked them in their sleep.
5 In the end, however, she was found hiding in her stall with her head buried among the hay in the manger.
6 Without saying anything to the others, she went to Mollie's stall and turned over the straw with her hoof.
7 One night at about twelve o'clock there was a loud crash in the yard, and the animals rushed out of their stalls.
8 Rations, reduced in December, were reduced again in February, and lanterns in the stalls were forbidden to save oil.
9 This would light the stalls and warm them in winter, and would also run a circular saw, a chaff-cutter, a mangel-slicer, and an electric milking machine.
10 In the morning the animals came out of their stalls to find that the flagstaff had been blown down and an elm tree at the foot of the orchard had been plucked up like a radish.
11 But the luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream, the stalls with electric light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were no longer talked about.
12 I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living.
13 Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater.
14 And about half an hour later, when Boxer had somewhat recovered, he was with difficulty got on to his feet, and managed to limp back to his stall, where Clover and Benjamin had prepared a good bed of straw for him.