Animal Farm Ch 3

The early apples were now ripening, and the
grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls.

Nobody shirked--or almost nobody.

None
of you has ever seen a dead donkey," and the others had to be content with
this cryptic answer.

After much
thought Snowball declared that the Seven Commandments could in effect be
reduced to a single maxim, namely: "Four legs good, two legs bad."

Every
mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly
their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out
to them by a grudging master.

As soon as they were weaned, Napoleon took them away
from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for
their education.

First came the hoisting of the flag.

They met with many difficulties--for
instance, later in the year, when they harvested the corn, they had to
tread it out in the ancient style and blow away the chaff with their
breath, since the farm possessed no threshing machine--but the pigs with
their cleverness and Boxer with his tremendous muscles always pulled them
through.

He was indefatigable at this.

He did his work in the
same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones's time, never shirking
and never volunteering for extra work either.

Every
mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly
their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out
to them by a grudging master.

The
animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be.

Day and night we are watching over
your welfare.