1 They saw that they were in danger of being surrounded.
2 Meanwhile the timber was being carted away at high speed.
3 Jones and his men suddenly found themselves being butted and kicked from all sides.
4 So far from being decorated, he had been censured for showing cowardice in the battle.
5 Ribbons," he said, "should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being.
6 At first it was a little difficult to see how this fitted in with his being on Jones's side.
7 The animals sniffed the air hungrily and wondered whether a warm mash was being prepared for their supper.
8 For the time being, the young pigs were given their instruction by Napoleon himself in the farmhouse kitchen.
9 The animals distrusted Pilkington, as a human being, but greatly preferred him to Frederick, whom they both feared and hated.
10 After a little thought, the pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows fairly successfully, their trotters being well adapted to this task.
11 The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals.
12 Every human being held it as an article of faith that the farm would go bankrupt sooner or later, and, above all, that the windmill would be a failure.
13 The flag was run up and 'Beasts of England' was sung a number of times, then the sheep who had been killed was given a solemn funeral, a hawthorn bush being planted on her grave.
14 It was nearly nine o'clock when Squealer made his appearance, walking slowly and dejectedly, his eyes dull, his tail hanging limply behind him, and with every appearance of being seriously ill.
15 Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide.
16 Most of this time Mr. Jones had spent sitting in the taproom of the Red Lion at Willingdon, complaining to anyone who would listen of the monstrous injustice he had suffered in being turned out of his property by a pack of good-for-nothing animals.
17 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 reign.
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