1 At the beginning they met with much stupidity and apathy.
2 All the animals capered with joy when they saw the whips going up in flames.
3 The next moment he and his four men were in the store-shed with whips in their hands, lashing out in all directions.
4 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.
5 Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg, and the ducklings nestled down inside it and promptly fell asleep.
6 Snowball also threw on to the fire the ribbons with which the horses' manes and tails had usually been decorated on market days.
7 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.
8 The best known among them was a small fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice.
9 A minute later all five of them were in full flight down the cart-track that led to the main road, with the animals pursuing them in triumph.
10 I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired.
11 Napoleon was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way.
12 They were so delighted with the song that they sang it right through five times in succession, and might have continued singing it all night if they had not been interrupted.
13 When Mr. Jones got back he immediately went to sleep on the drawing-room sofa with the News of the World over his face, so that when evening came, the animals were still unfed.
14 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.
15 The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw.
16 The harness-room at the end of the stables was broken open; the bits, the nose-rings, the dog-chains, the cruel knives with which Mr. Jones had been used to castrate the pigs and lambs, were all flung down the well.
17 We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty.
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