The flag was run up and Beasts of England was sung a number of times,
then the sheep who had been killed was given a solemn funeral, a hawthorn bush being planted on her grave.
At the graveside Snowball made a little speech, emphasising the need for all animals to be ready to die for Animal Farm if need be.
The animals decided unanimously to create a military decoration, “Animal Hero, First Class,” which was conferred there and then on Snowball and Boxer.
It consisted of a brass medal (they were really some old horse-brasses
which had been found in the harness-room), to be worn on Sundays and holidays.
There was also “Animal Hero, Second Class,” which was conferred posthumously on the dead sheep.
There was much discussion as to what the battle should be called.
In the end, it was named the Battle of the Cowshed, since that was where the ambush had been sprung.
Mr. Jones’s gun had been found lying in the mud, and it was known that there was a supply of cartridges in the farmhouse.
It was decided to set the gun up at the foot of the Flagstaff, like a piece of artillery, and to fire it twice a year—
once on October the twelfth, the anniversary of the Battle of the Cowshed, and once on Midsummer Day, the anniversary of the Rebellion.
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