Its owner was a Mr. Frederick, a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains.
These two disliked each other so much that it was difficult for them to come to any agreement, even in defence of their own interests.
Nevertheless, they were both thoroughly frightened by the rebellion on Animal Farm,
and very anxious to prevent their own animals from learning too much about it.
At first they pretended to laugh to scorn the idea of animals managing a farm for themselves.
The whole thing would be over in a fortnight, they said.
They put it about that the animals on the Manor Farm (they insisted on calling it the Manor Farm;
they would not tolerate the name “Animal Farm”) were perpetually fighting among themselves and were also rapidly starving to death.
When time passed and the animals had evidently not starved to death,
Frederick and Pilkington changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on Animal Farm.
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common.
This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.
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