1 During the next three months there was much secret activity.
2 To the amazement of everybody, three of them flung themselves upon Boxer.
3 A special committee of pigs had been at work upon them for the past three weeks.
4 But at this moment the three cows, who had seemed uneasy for some time past, set up a loud lowing.
5 Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon's wishes.
6 And thereafter, he declared, so much labour would be saved that the animals would only need to work three days a week.
7 There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.
8 These three had elaborated old Major's teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they gave the name of Animalism.
9 First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform.
10 They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments.
11 And Squealer, who happened to be passing at this moment, attended by two or three dogs, was able to put the whole matter in its proper perspective.
12 Many years ago, when I was a little pig, my mother and the other sows used to sing an old song of which they knew only the tune and the first three words.
13 Still, it had been decided to build the walls three feet thick this time instead of eighteen inches as before, which meant collecting much larger quantities of stone.
14 He had been a hard worker even in Jones's time, but now he seemed more like three horses than one; there were days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders.
15 As soon as they were well inside the yard, the three horses, the three cows, and the rest of the pigs, who had been lying in ambush in the cowshed, suddenly emerged in their rear, cutting them off.
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 The animals were not certain what the word meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions.
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