Napoleon read out the orders for the week in a gruff soldierly style, and after a single singing of Beasts of England, all the animals dispersed.
On the third Sunday after Snowball's expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised
to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all.
He did not give any reason for having changed his mind, but merely warned the animals
that this extra task would mean very hard work, it might even be necessary to reduce their rations.
The plans, however, had all been prepared, down to the last detail.
A special committee of pigs had been at work upon them for the past three weeks.
The building of the windmill, with various other improvements, was expected to take two years.
That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill.
On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning,
and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon's papers.
The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon's own creation. Why, then, asked somebody, had he spoken so strongly against it?
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