Animal farm / Скотный двор. Уровень 2

This was the real name of the farm!

After this they went back to the farm buildings. Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder. They set it against the end wall of the big barn. They explained the pigs reduced the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments. These Seven Commandments will now be written on the wall. They will form an unalterable law for all the animals on Animal Farm.

With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to balance himself on a ladder) Snowball climbed up and began to work. Squealer held the paint-pot[13 - paint-pot – банка с краской].

The Commandments were written on the wall in great white letters:

The Seven Commandments

1.В Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

2.В Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

3.В No animal must wear clothes.

4.В No animal must sleep in a bed.

5.В No animal must drink alcohol.

6.В No animal must kill any other animal.

7.В All animals are equal.

It was very good. Except that the word “friend” was written “freind” and one of the “S’s” was the wrong way round[14 - was the wrong way round – было развёрнуто в другую сторону], the spelling was correct.

Snowball read it aloud. All the animals nodded in agreement. The cleverer animals began to learn the Commandments by heart.

“Now, comrades,” cried Snowball and threw down the paint-brush, “to the hayfield! Let us work more quickly than Jones and his men!”

But at this moment the three cows began to moo.

They were not milked for twenty-four hours. After a little thought, the pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows successfully. Soon there were five buckets of milk. Many of the animals looked at the buckets with interest.

“What will happen to that milk?” said someone.

“Jones sometimes mixed some of it in our mash,” said one of the hens.

“Don’t think about the milk, comrades!” cried Napoleon and stood in front of the buckets. “The harvest is more important.

Comrade Snowball will lead the way. I shall follow in a few minutes. Forward, comrades! The hay waits for us!”

So the animals went to the hayfield to begin to work. When they came back in the evening the milk disappeared.

Chapter III

How they toiled and sweated! But their efforts were rewarded. The harvest was even bigger than they hoped.

Sometimes the work was hard. The instruments were for men and not for animals.