1 The situation was quite out of their control.
2 And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span.
3 After only a moment or two they gave up trying to defend themselves and took to their heels.
4 Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves comfortable after their different fashions.
5 The next moment he and his four men were in the store-shed with whips in their hands, lashing out in all directions.
6 With one accord, though nothing of the kind had been planned beforehand, they flung themselves upon their tormentors.
7 The birds jumped on to their perches, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment.
8 As for the dogs, when they grow old and toothless, Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond.
9 The dogs had suddenly caught sight of them, and it was only by a swift dash for their holes that the rats saved their lives.
10 While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.
11 You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds.
12 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.
13 They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.
14 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.
15 They did not know when the Rebellion predicted by Major would take place, they had no reason for thinking that it would be within their own lifetime, but they saw clearly that it was their duty to prepare for it.
16 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.
17 These two had great difficulty in thinking anything out for themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers, they absorbed everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other animals by simple arguments.
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