It was announced that later, when bricks and timber had been purchased, a schoolroom would be built in the farmhouse garden.
For the time being, the young pigs were given their instruction by Napoleon himself in the farmhouse kitchen.
They took their exercise in the garden, and were discouraged from playing with the other young animals.
About this time, too, it was laid down as a rule that when a pig and any other animal met on the path, the other animal must stand aside:
and also that all pigs, of whatever degree, were to have the privilege of wearing green ribbons on their tails on Sundays.
The farm had had a fairly successful year, but was still short of money.
There were the bricks, sand, and lime for the schoolroom to be purchased,
and it would also be necessary to begin saving up again for the machinery for the windmill.
Then there were lamp oil and candles for the house, sugar for Napoleon’s own table
(he forbade this to the other pigs, on the ground that it made them fat),
and all the usual replacements such as tools, nails, string, coal, wire, scrap-iron, and dog biscuits.
A stump of hay and part of the potato crop were sold off, and the contract for eggs was increased to six hundred a week,
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