1 Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof, otherwise nothing in the house was touched.
2 Mollie, it was true, was not good at getting up in the mornings, and had a way of leaving work early on the ground that there was a stone in her hoof.
3 Snowball had found in the harness-room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white.
4 Back in the yard Boxer was pawing with his hoof at the stable-lad who lay face down in the mud, trying to turn him over.
5 Without saying anything to the others, she went to Mollie's stall and turned over the straw with her hoof.
6 Boxer saw them coming and put out his great hoof, caught a dog in mid-air, and pinned him to the ground.
7 Napoleon appeared to change countenance, and sharply ordered Boxer to let the dog go, whereat Boxer lifted his hoof, and the dog slunk away, bruised and howling.
8 His knees were bleeding, he had lost a shoe and split his hoof, and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hind leg.
9 Boxer's split hoof was a long time in healing.
10 In the evenings he would admit privately to Clover that the hoof troubled him a great deal.
11 Clover treated the hoof with poultices of herbs which she prepared by chewing them, and both she and Benjamin urged Boxer to work less hard.
12 After his hoof had healed up, Boxer worked harder than ever.
13 If so, they would perhaps have noted that the white hoof and horn with which it had previously been marked had now been removed.
14 At length, Charley Bates expressed his opinion that it was time to pad the hoof.
15 The soft earth was scarred with hoof prints and heavy wheels and the vegetables were mashed into the soil.