Indeed, he and his fellow-visitors today had observed many features which they intended to introduce on their own farms immediately.
He would end his remarks, he said, by emphasising once again the friendly feelings that subsisted,
and ought to subsist, between Animal Farm and its neighbours.
Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests whatever.
Their struggles and their difficulties were one. Was not the labour problem the same everywhere?
Here it became apparent that Mr. Pilkington was about to spring some carefully prepared witticism on the company,
but for a moment he was too overcome by amusement to be able to utter it.
After much choking, during which his various chins turned purple, he managed to get it out:
“If you have your lower animals to contend with,” he said, “we have our lower classes!”
This bon mot set the table in a roar; and Mr. Pilkington once again congratulated the pigs on the low rations,
the long working hours, and the general absence of pampering which he had observed on Animal Farm.
And now, he said finally, he would ask the company to rise to their feet and make certain that their glasses were full.
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