![]() ![]() They stop dead when they all see what has startled Clover. The animals rush forward to see what is happening. ![]() That evening, as the animals are returning to the yard from work, Clover is heard neighing excitedly from the yard. Squealer is seen to take all the sheep of the farm aside, and no-one sees them for a week. Nonetheless, Animal Farm remains the only farm in England to be owned by the animals, and the animals remain enormously proud of this. Squealer continues to impress everyone with detailed figures of how everything has improved on the farm, but deep down the animals are unable to reconcile this with the lack of improvement in their own conditions. The pigs are all involved in the bureaucracy of running the farm, and are not available to do any actual work, though Squealer makes it clear to the others that what the pigs do is of vital importance to the farm. There are many pigs and dogs on the farm now. The farm is growing richer, but the animals themselves do not seem to benefit much from it. ![]() There is no more talk of the three-day week, or any of the other luxuries that Snowball originally promised would accrue from the windmill. ![]() Another windmill is now being built to generate electricity. It is used for milling corn, rather than for generating electricity, and brings a good profit to the farm. Clover is by now very old, well past retirement age, except that no animal has actually managed to retire yet. Only Clover, Benjamin, Moses and some of the pigs remember the days before the rebellion. Years have passed, and many of the animals are dead. ![]()
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