The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership.

and it was known that there was a supply of cartridges in the farmhouse. It was decided to set the gun

Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball.

‘Then we have won back what we had before,’ said Boxer. ‘That is our victory,’ said Squealer.

Snowball, who had studied an old book of Julius Caesar’s campaigns which

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in another part of the county. Snowball was forgotten. Boxer was

A gander who had been privy to the plot had confessed his guilt to Squealer and immediately committed suicide by swallowing deadly nightshade berries.

He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.