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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
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1 A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded.
2 Straw was laid down outside the doors of the farmhouse, and the animals walked on tiptoe.
3 Without saying anything to the others, she went to Mollie's stall and turned over the straw with her hoof.
4 Hidden under the straw was a little pile of lump sugar and several bunches of ribbon of different colours.
5 The birds jumped on to their perches, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment.
6 First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform.
7 At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.
8 When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest.
9 They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the pool, they laboured in the fields; in winter they were troubled by the cold, and in summer by the flies.
10 Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen.
11 The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw.