Finally he decided to be content with the first four letters,
and used to write them out once or twice every day to refresh his memory.
Mollie refused to learn any but the six letters which spelt her own name.
She would form these very neatly out of pieces of twig,
and would then decorate them with a flower or two and walk round them admiring them.
None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A.
It was also found that the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens, and ducks, were unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart.
After much thought Snowball declared that the Seven Commandments could in effect be reduced to a single maxim, namely: “Four legs good, two legs bad.”
This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism.
Whoever had thoroughly grasped it would be safe from human influences.
The birds at first objected, since it seemed to them that they also had two legs, but Snowball proved to them that this was not so.
“A bird’s wing, comrades,” he said, “is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation. It should therefore be regarded as a leg.
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