Animal Farm

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“So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.”

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“He announced that from now on the Sunday-morning Meetings would come to an end. They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time.”

Narrator

5

“The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs.”

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5

“And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either”

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6

“Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.’ Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals’ memory.”

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“Even in the farmhouse, it was said, Napoleon inhabited separate apartments from the others. He took his meals alone, with two dogs to wait upon him, and always ate from the Crown Derby dinner service which had been in the glass cupboard in the

drawing-room.”

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8

“He was always referred to in formal style as ‘our Leader, Comrade Napoleon,’ and this pigs liked to invent for him such titles as Father of All Animals, Terror of Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold, Ducklings’ Friend, and the like.”

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8

“He personally congratulated the animals on their achievement, and announced that the mill would be named Napoleon Mill.”

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8

“Napoleon had created a new decoration, the Order of the Green Banner, which he had conferred upon himself.”

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8

“By the evening of that day Napoleon was back at work, and on the next day it was learned that he had instructed Whymper to purchase in Willingdon some booklets on brewing and distilling.”

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8

“At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint- brush, and an overturned pot of white paint.”

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“Rations, reduced in December, were reduced again in February, and lanterns in the stalls were forbidden to save Oil. But the pigs seemed comfortable enough, and in fact were putting on weight if anything.”

Narrator

9

“And the news soon leaked out that every pig was now receiving a ration of a pint of beer daily, with half a gallon for Napoleon himself, which was always served to him in the Crown Derby soup tureen.”

Narrator

9

“But no warm mash appeared, and on the following Sunday it was announced that from now onwards all barley would be reserved for the pigs.”

Narrator

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“Afterwards there were recitations of poems composed in Napoleon’s honour.”

Narrator

9

“Forward in the name of the Rebellion. Long live Animal Farm! Long live Comrade Napoleon! Napoleon is always right.’ Those were his very last words, comrades.”

Squealer

9

“No one stirred in the farmhouse before noon on the following day, and the word went round that from somewhere or other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whisky.”

Squealer

9

“‘Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!’”

Sheep

10

“Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing?”

Clover

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