Then he put on an extra spurt and, with a few inches to spare, slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more.
Silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn. In a moment the dogs came bounding back.
At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved:
they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately.
Though not yet full-grown, they were huge dogs, and as fierce-looking as wolves.
They kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones.
Napoleon, with the dogs following him, now mounted on to the raised portion of the floor where Major had previously stood to deliver his speech.
He announced that from now on the Sunday-morning Meetings would come to an end. They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time.
In future all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself.
These would meet in private and afterwards communicate their decisions to the others.
The animals would still assemble on Sunday mornings to salute the flag, sing Beasts of England,
and receive their orders for the week; but there would be no more debates.
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