1 The whole thing would be over in a fortnight, they said.
2 Suddenly, early in the spring, an alarming thing was discovered.
3 Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.
4 You do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty thing that we have done.
5 I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm.
6 And in many ways the animal method of doing things was more efficient and saved labour.
7 The animals found the problem insoluble; in any case, they had little time for speculating on such things now.
8 Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back.
9 They all cowered silently in their places, seeming to know in advance that some terrible thing was about to happen.
10 And Boxer put out his nose to sniff at the bank-notes, and the flimsy white things stirred and rustled in his breath.
11 It was as though they had never seen these things before, and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own.
12 But they woke at dawn as usual, and suddenly remembering the glorious thing that had happened, they all raced out into the pasture together.
13 She knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings.
14 Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones's expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now.
15 The animals' blood boiled with rage when they heard of these things beingdone to their comrades, and sometimes they clamoured to be allowed to go out in a body and attack Pinchfield Farm, drive out the humans, and set the animals free.
16 Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
17 Even when it was resolved--a thing no one could object to in itself--to set aside the small paddock behind the orchard as a home of rest for animals who were past work, there was a stormy debate over the correct retiring age for each class of animal.
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