They found it comforting to be reminded that, after all, they were truly their own masters and that the work they did was for their own benefit.
So that, what with the songs, the processions, Squealer’s lists of figures, the thunder of the gun, the crowing of the cockerel,
and the fluttering of the flag, they were able to forget that their bellies were empty, at least part of the time.
In April, Animal Farm was proclaimed a Republic, and it became necessary to elect a President.
There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously.
On the same day it was given out that fresh documents had been discovered which revealed further details about Snowball’s complicity with Jones.
It now appeared that Snowball had not, as the animals had previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the Battle of the Cowshed
by means of a stratagem, but had been openly fighting on Jones’s side.
In fact, it was he who had actually been the leader of the human forces, and had charged into battle with the words “Long live Humanity!” on his lips.
The wounds on Snowball’s back, which a few of the animals still remembered to have seen, had been inflicted by Napoleon’s teeth.
In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years.
He was quite unchanged, still did no work, and talked in the same strain as ever about Sugarcandy Mountain.
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