1 They could not knock it down in a week.
2 A week later, in the afternoon, a number of dog-carts drove up to the farm.
3 Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week.
4 Here the work of the coming week was planned out and resolutions were put forward and debated.
5 It ended by their remaining there for a whole week, during which time the other animals saw nothing of them.
6 Every Sunday morning at ten o'clock the animals assembled in the big barn to receive their orders for the week.
7 And thereafter, he declared, so much labour would be saved that the animals would only need to work three days a week.
8 Breakfast was an hour later than usual, and after breakfast there was a ceremony which was observed every week without fail.
9 Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away.
10 Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others.
11 In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges.
12 Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well.
13 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.
14 Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm.
15 A week later Napoleon gave orders that the small paddock beyond the orchard, which it had previously been intended to set aside as a grazing-ground for animals who were past work, was to be ploughed up.
16 A stump of hay and part of the potato crop were sold off, and the contract for eggs was increased to six hundred a week, so that that year the hens barely hatched enough chicks to keep their numbers at the same level.
17 Hitherto the animals had had little or no contact with Whymper on his weekly visits: now, however, a few selected animals, mostly sheep, were instructed to remark casually in his hearing that rations had been increased.
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