Animal Farm

A little way down the pasture there was a knoll that commanded a view of most of the farm.

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.

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 wit

There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand.

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

Nevertheless, without openly admitting it, he was devoted to Boxer; the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.

Gradually the plans grew into a complicated mass of cranks and cog-wheels, covering more than half the floor, which the other animals found completely unintelligible but very impressive.

Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater.

Their first act was to gallop in a body right round the boundaries of the farm, as though to make quite sure that no human being was hiding anywhere upon it; then they raced back to the farm buildings to wipe out the last traces of Jones's hated re

There was the same hearty cheering as before, and the mugs were emptied to the dregs.

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

The animals decided unanimously to create a military decoration, "Animal Hero, First Class," which was conferred there and then on Snowball and Boxer.

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

Napoleon read out the orders for the week in a gruff soldierly style, and after a single singing of 'Beasts of England', all the animals dispersed.

Even the cat suddenly leapt off a roof onto a cowman's shoulders and sank her claws in his neck, at which he yelled horribly.

And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of those eggs ever hatched into chickens?

They all cowered silently in their places, seeming to know in advance that some terrible thing was about to happen.

Many animals had been born to whom the Rebellion was only a dim tradition, passed on by word of mouth, and others had been bought who had never heard mention of such a thing before their arrival.

The best known among them was a small fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice.

Muriel, Benjamin, and all the sheep, with Snowball at the head of them, rushed forward and prodded and butted the men from every side, while Benjamin turned around and lashed at them with his small hoofs.

The cows lowed it, the dogs whined it, the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it, the ducks quacked it.

In spite of the shock that Snowball's expulsion had given them, the animals were dismayed by this announcement.

And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of those eggs ever hatched into chickens?

For that day we all must labour, Though we die before it break; Cows and horses, geese and turkeys, All must toil for freedom's sake.