1 The pigs had set aside the harness-room as a headquarters for themselves.
2 Almost before Major had reached the end, they had begun singing it for themselves.
3 Jones and his men suddenly found themselves being butted and kicked from all sides.
4 The pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn and the meeting broke up hurriedly.
5 After only a moment or two they gave up trying to defend themselves and took to their heels.
6 At first they pretended to laugh to scorn the idea of animals managing a farm for themselves.
7 Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves comfortable after their different fashions.
8 They could not understand, they said, how even animals could bring themselves to sing such contemptible rubbish.
9 According to Napoleon, what the animals must do was to procure firearms and train themselves in the use of them.
10 With one accord, though nothing of the kind had been planned beforehand, they flung themselves upon their tormentors.
11 Many meetings were held in the big barn, and the pigs occupied themselves with planning out the work of the coming season.
12 One of the cows broke in the door of the store-shed with her horn and all the animals began to help themselves from the bins.
13 The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.
14 Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.
15 The one argued that if they could not defend themselves they were bound to be conquered, the other argued that if rebellions happened everywhere they would have no need to defend themselves.
16 The pigs now revealed that during the past three months they had taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book which had belonged to Mr. Jones's children and which had been thrown on the rubbish heap.
17 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.
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