1 All the other animals immediately raced back to the farmhouse to give Squealer the news.
2 The other farmers sympathised in principle, but they did not at first give him much help.
3 Gentlemen," concluded Napoleon, "I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form.
4 The plot was for Snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight and leave the field to the enemy.
5 It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune.
6 He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.
7 It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies.
8 He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
9 He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death.
10 He did not give any reason for having changed his mind, but merely warned the animals that this extra task would mean very hard work, it might even be necessary to reduce their rations.
11 And when Squealer went on to give further graphic details of Boxer's death-bed, the admirable care he had received, and the expensive medicines for which Napoleon had paid without a thought as to the cost, their last doubts disappeared and the sorrow that they felt for their comrade's death was tempered by the thought that at least he had died happy.