1 At this moment there was a tremendous uproar.
2 Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered.
3 It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way.
4 Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
5 As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings.
6 Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
7 Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.
8 The dogs had suddenly caught sight of them, and it was only by a swift dash for their holes that the rats saved their lives.
9 While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.
10 She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane, hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with.
11 At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.
12 He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.
13 Nevertheless, without openly admitting it, he was devoted to Boxer; the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.
14 A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work.
15 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.
16 Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.
17 With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.
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