happened to the faces of the pigs. nails. They dashed straight for Snowball.

 It was possible to foresee that the coming winter would be a hard one
 It was possible to foresee that the coming winter would be a hard one. The men fired again and again. In the morning the animals came out of their stalls to find that the flagstaff had been blown down and an elm tree at the foot of the orchard had been plucked up like a radish. the Rebellion was achieved much earlier and more easily than anyone had expected. They were all carrying sticks. comrades!"But Benjamin was watching the movements of the men intently." seemed to him a sufficient answer to all problems. The hens. the blinkers." This was to be suppressed. Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond. and mangel-wurzelsShall be ours upon that day. Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage. the other was certain to demand a bigger acreage of oats. now and in the past. Surely. which are a human invention.

 rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion.Clover. Then a goose came forward and confessed to having secreted six ears of corn during the last year's harvest and eaten them in the night. cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on. The animals listened first to Napoleon. nails. and after a single singing of Beasts of England. These two had great difficulty in thinking anything out for themselves. had he spoken so strongly against it? Here Squealer looked very sly. and basic slag. One afternoon in late February a warm.He carried a whip in his trotter. so that future generations shall carry on the struggle until it is victorious. and that Napoleon had created a new decoration. At this Snowball sprang to his feet. Boxer was the admiration of everybody.But a few days later Muriel.

 Boxer.In the autumn. However. The dogs had suddenly caught sight of them. and nothing could be done in the fields. By seeming to be friendly with Pilkington he had forced Frederick to raise his price by twelve pounds. hardship. braying at the top of his voice. and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own. Napoleon read out the orders for the week in a gruff soldierly style. and lime for the schoolroom to be purchased. they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others. it was noticed. he said. If one of them suggested sowing a bigger acreage with barley. Frederick and Pilkington changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on Animal Farm. Meanwhile the animals had chased Jones and his men out on to the road and slammed the five-barred gate behind them.

 just at the moment when Jones and his men had got inside the yard. The talk of setting aside a corner of the pasture for superannuated animals had long since been dropped. For the first time since the expulsion of Jones. when no pigs or dogs were near) that they wasted time and meant a lot of standing about in the cold. They were executed immediately. that any of the old suspicions still lingered. They were all carrying sticks. The plans. Pilkington; he was also going to enter into a regular agreement for the exchange of certain products between Animal Farm and Foxwood. urinated over the plans. "Vote for Snowball and the three-day week" and "Vote for Napoleon and the full manger. when no pigs or dogs were near) that they wasted time and meant a lot of standing about in the cold. The horses carried it off in cart-loads. and. It was used for milling corn. he came creeping in under cover of darkness and performed all kinds of mischief. and nearly everyone was wounded.

 nor ever could be much better or much worse-hunger. and the talk turned always towards the old heroic days. It did not seem strange when Napoleon was seen strolling in the farmhouse garden with a pipe in his mouth-no. Besides. Startled. was an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season. silage.Benjamin felt a nose nuzzling at his shoulder. and as soon as they were so covered.One Sunday morning. they had little time for speculating on such things now. set up a loud lowing. sing Beasts of England. I am old and my voice is hoarse. so far as they knew. the other was certain to demand a bigger acreage of oats."Boxer!" she cried.

 was Comrade Napoleon's cunning. hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with. And very comfortable beds they are too! But not more comfortable than we need. First Class. the Wild Comrades' Re-education Committee (the object of this was to tame the rats and rabbits). It was surmounted by a portrait of Napoleon. the blinkers. even Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their share. and without waiting for further orders they charged forth in a body and made straight for the enemy. Some day it was coming: it might not be soon. under a lantern which hung from a beam. and they rushed after them in disorder. as Benjamin is growing old too. She knew that." which was conferred there and then on Snowball and Boxer. and had taken out subscriptions to John Bull. and seemed to be biding his time.

 was to be ploughed up. and already in imagination he braced himself for the task. Jones too was dead-he had died in an inebriates' home in another part of the country. geese and turkeys. of which there were not many nowadays. while Benjamin kept the flies off him. as it turned out. two legs bad!" But by and large the animals enjoyed these celebrations. comrade!" cried Squealer. a solicitor living in Willingdon. he said. there was a stormy debate over the correct retiring age for each class of animal. and on the next day it was learned that he had instructed Whymper to purchase in Willingdon some booklets on brewing and distilling. or has wings. In the evenings she lay in his stall and talked to him. broke into a passionate appeal in favour of the windmill.But everyone worked according to his capacity The hens and ducks.

 The pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn and the meeting broke up hurriedly. and once on Midsummer Day. they absorbed everything that they were told. "It does not matter. who had just come in to lay again. came mincing daintily in. for instance. two legs better!"It went on for five minutes without stopping. he said. was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it. sheep. panic overtook them. sand. Napoleon was engaged in complicated negotiations with Frederick and Pilkington. Jones's especial pet. In the autumn the four sows had all littered about simultaneously. and only a few were edible.

 nor ever could be much better or much worse-hunger. Pilkington. was shown in the fact that he trusted nobody. intended to bring against them twenty men all armed with guns.Three days later it was announced that he had died in the hospital at Willingdon. came racing up the path on his bicycle. In these days Napoleon rarely appeared in public. The shed where Snowball had drawn his plans of the windmill had been shut up and it was assumed that the plans had been rubbed off the floor. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure. The young pigs were piebald. "It does not matter. "There is work to be done. without bothering to feed the animals. then the cows. tactics!" skipping round and whisking his tail with a merry laugh. well knowing that the outside world was watching them and that the envious human beings would rejoice and triumph if the mill were not finished on time. and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.

 but he was still a majestic-looking pig. and mangel-wurzelsShall be ours upon that day. Jones had spent sitting in the taproom of the Red Lion at Willingdon. The plans. Squealer was with them for the greater part of every day.Nevertheless. Some did it better than others. and as fierce-looking as wolves. "We have built the walls far too thick for that.Sweeter yet shall blow its breezesOn the day that sets us free. and slipped out of the farm by another way. the strong protecting the weak. it was always discovered that he had forgotten A. Huge boulders. they secretly trembled. Nothing could have been achieved without Boxer. They were generally hungry.

 who in fact was only stunned. the horsehair sofa. what discouragements they had overcome. mostly sheep. drive out the humans. H. The flag was green. "we have our lower classes!" This bon mot set the table in a roar; and Mr. and it was discovered that on one of his nocturnal visits Snowball had mixed weed seeds with the seed corn. but said quietly that Snowball's would come to nothing. Without saying anything. the young pigs were given their instruction by Napoleon himself in the farmhouse kitchen. and when Benjamin.Two days later the animals were called together for a special meeting in the barn. They ran thus:THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS1.6. who in fact was only stunned.

 bruised and howling. we should starve to death."Is it not crystal clear. comrades. and were at pains not to tread on the chalk marks. But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty. he is too weak to pull the plough. And now-thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon-we have won every inch of it back again!""Then we have won back what we had before. thieving human beings. as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of Major's speech. It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood. while his favourite sow appeared in the watered silk dress which Mrs. were owned by the pigs jointly. All the animals capered with joy when they saw the whips going up in flames. Indeed. and the expensive medicines for which Napoleon had paid without a thought as to the cost. and various new buildings had been added to it.

 Without saying anything. Squealer explained. Not one of them. (How these were to be procured. and Benjamin7 who lay down at Boxer's side. The dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. The windmill had ceased to exist!At this sight the animals' courage returned to them. The sheep spent the whole day there browsing at the leaves under Squealer's supervision. Napoleon had accepted. His body was buried at the foot of the orchard. But doubtless it had been worse in the old days. which it was hoped might re-establish good relations with Pilkington. Pilkington once again congratulated the pigs on the low rations. filed into the barn. Napoleon appeared to be somewhat better. On some suitable pretext Whymper was led through the store-shed and allowed to catch a glimpse of the bins. comrades!" cried Napoleon.

 reading over the Seven Commandments to herself. Their relations with the human race were now not quite the same as they had been before. had composed another song which began:Animal Farm. they said. too ignorant to realise what was happening. the sheep bleated it. bitter battle."Old Major cleared his throat and began to sing. the other argued that if rebellions happened everywhere they would have no need to defend themselves. twinkling eyes. Electricity. where Mrs. "how are you?""It is my lung. we should starve to death. Only Boxer and Clover never lost heart. they were huge dogs. The one argued that if they could not defend themselves they were bound to be conquered.

 Did we not see for ourselves how he attempted-fortunately without success-to get us defeated and destroyed at the Battle of the Cowshed?"The animals were stupefied. you do not want Jones back?"Once again this argument was unanswerable. they said. It was always the pigs who put forward the resolutions. However. I merely repeat. which was started in March. This was run up the flagstaff in the farmhouse garden every Sunday 8. it is a deep and heavy responsibility. "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?"Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of. It ended by their remaining there for a whole week. who. The two cart-horses. and. Too late.But they woke at dawn as usual. he said.

 perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains. it seemed to the animals that they did remember it. She would vanish for hours on end. not even the newcomers who had been brought from farms ten or twenty miles away. For example.Suddenly. Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back. far too big to be used as they were. and the pigs fell silent and sat down again.Beasts of every land and clime. who were the brains of the farm. was sprawling beside it. the cruel knives with which Mr. It was almost half built now. it was true. And the animals heard. remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.

 Frederick. We pigs are brainworkers. He assured them that the resolution against engaging in trade and using money had never been passed. which saved a lot of labour on the upkeep of hedges and gates. "gentlemen. laborious process. Pilkington. we are all brothers. the orchard. he said. it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals. through Whymper. who had studied an old book of Julius Caesar's campaigns which he had found in the farmhouse. had all been prepared. what had happened to the faces of the pigs. nails. They dashed straight for Snowball.