[share_ebook] Animal Farm

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• Author: George Orwell

CHAPTER I
MR JONES, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to
remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side he lurched
across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the
scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs Jones was already snoring.
As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm
buildings. Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange
dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals. It had been agreed that they
should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr Jones was safely out of the way. Old Major (so he was always
called, though the name under which he had been exhibited was Willingdon Beauty) was so highly regarded on
the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour’s sleep in order to hear what he had to say.

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