Early in October, when the corn was cut and stacked and some of it was already threshed,
a flight of pigeons came whirling through the air and alighted in the yard of Animal Farm in the wildest excitement.
Jones and all his men, with half a dozen others from Foxwood and Pinchfield,
had entered the five-barred gate and were coming up the cart-track that led to the farm.
They were all carrying sticks, except Jones, who was marching ahead with a gun in his hands.
Obviously they were going to attempt the recapture of the farm.
This had long been expected, and all preparations had been made.
Snowball, who had studied an old book of Julius Caesar’s campaigns which he had found in the farmhouse, was in charge of the defensive operations.
He gave his orders quickly, and in a couple of minutes every animal was at his post.
As the human beings approached the farm buildings, Snowball launched his first attack.
All the pigeons, to the number of thirty-five, flew to and fro over the men’s heads and muted upon them from mid-air;
and while the men were dealing with this, the geese, who had been hiding behind the hedge,
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