1 In the evenings she lay in his stall and talked to him, while Benjamin kept the flies off him.
2 He would perch on a stump, flap his black wings, and talk by the hour to anyone who would listen.
3 She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach.
4 The talk of setting aside a corner of the pasture for superannuated animals had long since been dropped.
5 He was quite unchanged, still did no work, and talked in the same strain as ever about Sugarcandy Mountain.
6 And--I was a long way away, but I am almost certain I saw this--he was talking to you and you were allowing him to stroke your nose.
7 Some of the animals talked of the duty of loyalty to Mr. Jones, whom they referred to as "Master," or made elementary remarks such as "Mr. Jones feeds us."
8 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.
9 When time passed and the animals had evidently not starved to death, Frederick and Pilkington changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on Animal Farm.
10 He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark--for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no 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.
12 In his speeches, Squealer would talk with the tears rolling down his cheeks of Napoleon's wisdom the goodness of his heart, and the deep love he bore to all animals everywhere, even and especially the unhappy animals who still lived in ignorance and slavery on other farms.
13 And when they heard the gun booming and saw the green flag fluttering at the masthead, their hearts swelled with imperishable pride, and the talk turned always towards the old heroic days, the expulsion of Jones, the writing of the Seven Commandments, the great battles in which the human invaders had been defeated.