1 Silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn.
2 The rest of the animals sat facing them in the main body of the barn.
3 Two days later the animals were called together for a special meeting in the barn.
4 The pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn and the meeting broke up hurriedly.
5 When it was all gone, another special meeting was held in the barn for the animals to inspect Frederick's bank-notes.
6 After the hoisting of the flag, the animals were required to file past the skull in a reverent manner before entering the barn.
7 At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn.
8 Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others.
9 He snuffed in every corner, in the barn, in the cow-shed, in the henhouses, in the vegetable garden, and found traces of Snowball almost everywhere.
10 Finally there came a night when the gale was so violent that the farm buildings rocked on their foundations and several tiles were blown off the roof of the barn.
11 The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on.
12 One Sunday morning Napoleon appeared in the barn and explained that he had never at any time contemplated selling the pile of timber to Frederick; he considered it beneath his dignity, he said, to have dealings with scoundrels of that description.