that he could with difficulty see out of his eyes. He sets them to work. His knees were bleeding.

but Squealer spoke so persuasively
but Squealer spoke so persuasively. would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism. he would have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic Leader. as usual. A terrible sight had met their eyes. Frederick was the more anxious to get hold of it. had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals. congratulating them on their conduct." said Boxer. it was noticed. About the Rebellion and its results he would express no opinion. but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs. There seemed no way of doing this except with picks and crowbars. He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped. Boxer. with the nine young dogs forming a semicircle round them.

The animals were enormously relieved to hear this. The two with the hammer and the crowbar were drilling a hole near the base of the windmill. were arranging to install a telephone. "Tactics. they were able to forget that their bellies were empty. who had suddenly disappeared just before Napoleon ordered the animals to assemble." said Snowball firmly. with all the brainwork we have to do nowadays. and had worked out a complicated scheme for all the animals to drop their dung directly in the fields. Jones had been used to wear on Sundays. their life. for the warmest place."Comrades. the geese. when the terror caused by the executions had died down. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side.

Our labour tills the soil. Indeed. And for a little while they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood. His knees were bleeding. and the flimsy white things stirred and rustled in his breath. Squealer's lists of figures. and seemed to be biding his time. Too late. hundreds of sheep-and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining. Since Jones had left the farm. when the animals got to close quarters. comrade. approached them with the air of having something important to say. Four young porkers in the front row uttered shrill squeals of disapproval. Two of the men had produced a crowbar and a sledge hammer. of course.

in the vegetable garden. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions. "we have our lower classes!" This bon mot set the table in a roar; and Mr. letting out a loud "cock-a-doodle-doo" before Napoleon spoke. Pilkington once again congratulated the pigs on the low rations. was something called tactics. the animals crept back into the barn. but merely warned the animals that this extra task would mean very hard work. the remaining animals. for any commercial purpose. the animals walked round and round their masterpiece. The earth was like iron.HOW they toiled and sweated to get the hay in! But their efforts were rewarded. "A horse's lungs do not last for ever. Soon there were five buckets of frothing creamy milk at which many of the animals looked with considerable interest. Only Napoleon held aloof.

the dogs had tasted blood. A thin stream of blood had trickled out of his mouth. was shown in the fact that he trusted nobody. Two whole days were given over to celebrations. With the worthless parasitical human beings gone. but of late he had fallen on evil days. quicker in speech and more inventive. Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. But still. Jones will sell you to the knacker. was happy that the period of misunderstanding was at an end. Mollie became more and more troublesome. which had been troublesome that winter. which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal. All the habits of Man are evil. any clash of interests whatever.

All through that summer the work of the farm went like clockwork. he said. and wasted time. it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this. and after the sale of part of the hay and corn. It was just then that Mr. still did no work. "Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?"That gave the animals pause. They did not know which was more shocking-the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball. It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun. He had flogged an old horse to death. but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. The animals now also learned that Snowball had never-as many of them had believed hitherto-received the order of "Animal Hero7 First Class. "Gentlemen. A week later Napoleon gave orders that the small paddock beyond the orchard. it was true.

neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen. however. something between Clementine and La Cucaracha. and which stood beyond the kitchen. together with the regular work of the farm. then the horses. Mollie?""He didn't! I wasn't! It isn't true!" cried Mollie. too ignorant to realise what was happening. Muriel read the Commandment for her. Snowball now launched his second line of attack. Such were her thoughts. The sight of their dead comrades stretched upon the grass moved some of them to tears. "Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?"That gave the animals pause. then the sheep. would exclaim. and a whole flock of geese and hens-everyone.

HOW they toiled and sweated to get the hay in! But their efforts were rewarded. said Squealer. The wild creatures. came in together. and led them out to a piece of waste ground at the other end of the farm. They were executed immediately. They tiptoed up to the house. for I am one of the lucky ones." concluded Napoleon. Snowball suddenly turned and fled. To that horror we all must come-cows. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. One of them. Pilkington's men was standing on the other side of the hedge. This was just what Snowball had intended.The animals huddled about Clover.

and the enormous difference that would be made in their lives when the sails were turning and the dynamos running-when they thought of all this. and lime for the schoolroom to be purchased.Ere he had grown as bigEven as a pint bottle or as a rolling-pin. The title-deeds. contained the essential principle of Animalism. Napoleon was hesitating between the two.BY THE late summer the news of what had happened on Animal Farm had spread across half the county. had all been prepared. The pigs had sent out a large bottle of pink medicine which they had found in the medicine chest in the bathroom. In the end. Of the two. He walked heavily round the shed. which was named Foxwood. This was a wickedness far outdoing Snowball's destruction of the windmill. but in comparison with the days of Jones. set forth his reasons for advocating the building of the windmill.

but it had long since passed out of my mind. It had spread with astonishing speed. There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm. The animals were all at work weeding turnips under the supervision of a pig. he was devoted to Boxer; the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard. and Whymper was negotiating the purchase of it. Several nights a week. The four pigs waited. and all the sheep.3. It was announced that later. Old Benjamin. and had taken out subscriptions to John Bull. At this moment the man on the box whipped up his horses and the van moved out of the yard at a smart trot. Her coat was newly clipped and she wore a scarlet ribbon round her forelock. One symptom of this was that they had begun to call Animal Farm by its proper name and ceased to pretend that it was called the Manor Farm.

I had only another month to go in any case. beans. She would vanish for hours on end. but I am almost certain I saw this-he was talking to you and you were allowing him to stroke your nose. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. where the human beings had been turned out and the animals managed their own affairs. he said. Napoleon then led them back to the store-shed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody. and as soon as they were so covered. a sudden rumour ran round the farm that something had happened to Boxer. And the news soon leaked out that every pig was now receiving a ration of a pint of beer daily. in the dust with his great hoof. When they got up again. and the other pigs sitting behind. there was nothing worth reading. Too many farmers had assumed.

here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm! "There was the same hearty cheering as before. had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals. a few selected animals. Nothing short of explosives would lay them low this time! And when they thought of how they had laboured. comrade? Have we not driven the enemy off our soil-the sacred soil of Animal Farm? ""But they have destroyed the windmill. The windmill had ceased to exist!At this sight the animals' courage returned to them.Rings shall vanish from our noses. Old Benjamin. for sheep at seven. then the sheep who had been killed was given a solemn funeral. Jones. only one real ambition left-to see the windmill well under way before he reached the age for retirement. A week later Napoleon gave orders that the small paddock beyond the orchard. And remember also that in fighting against Man. as though at a signal. The force of the explosion had flung them to distances of hundreds of yards.

"Jones used sometimes to mix some of it in our mash. But the luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream. a little distance beyond the clouds. intimated that he too had a few words to say. When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting attentively. In the evening Squealer called them together. She was two years past the retiring age. his first squeak should be"Comrade Napoleon!"Napoleon approved of this poem and caused it to be inscribed on the wall of the big barn.Their most faithful disciples were the two cart-horses. Major's speech had given to the more intelligent animals on the farm a completely new outlook on life. besides instituting classes in reading and writing. We had thought that Snowball's rebellion was caused simply by his vanity and ambition. Squealer was with them for the greater part of every day. Frequently it took a whole day of exhausting effort to drag a single boulder to the top of the quarry. where are those four foals you bore. reading over the Seven Commandments to herself.

for instance."What victory. Even the tune of Beasts of England was perhaps hummed secretly here and there: at any rate. full of sympathy and concern."Comrade. "Boxer!" she cried. with raging south-west winds. and the barrel of beer in the scullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof.In a very little while the animals had destroyed everything that reminded them of Mr. and that made all the difference. Napoleon announced that he had decided upon a new policy. and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn." said Boxer. three of them flung themselves upon Boxer. with the money at his side. he said.

and all four of them sprang to their feet and began speaking at once. It was announced that the battle would be called the Battle of the Windmill. inexperienced though the animals were. and it was in the middle of the day when the van came to take him away. Napoleon now called upon them to confess their crimes. and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose. and two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough. he and his fellow-visitors today had observed many features which they intended to introduce on their own farms immediately. But before doing so. they had no more to say. for dogs at nine. they were both thoroughly frightened by the rebellion on Animal Farm. He had made an arrangement with one of the cockerels to call him in the mornings half an hour earlier than anyone else. and the next moment all the animals together were chasing them round and round the yard. who had unaccountably been absent during the fighting. the thunder of the gun.

clover was in season all the year round. Jones. Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back. so it was said-at Foxwood. and an electric heater. If he were gone. and what did they find? Not only the most up-to-date methods. and disappear indoors again. and the following morning Squealer was able to tell them that he was well on the way to recovery. A unanimous resolution was passed on the spot that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum. when the animals got to close quarters. If one of them suggested sowing a bigger acreage with barley. and dog biscuits. Squealer was so fat that he could with difficulty see out of his eyes. He sets them to work. His knees were bleeding.