To see him toiling up the slope inch by inch, his breath coming fast, the tips of his hoofs clawing at the ground,
and his great sides matted with sweat, filled everyone with admiration.
Clover warned him sometimes to be careful not to overstrain himself, but Boxer would never listen to her.
His two slogans, “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right,” seemed to him a sufficient answer to all problems.
He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.
And in his spare moments, of which there were not many nowadays, he would go alone to the quarry,
collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.
The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.
If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less.
The advantage of only having to feed themselves, and not having to support five extravagant human beings as well,
was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.
And in many ways the animal method of doing things was more efficient and saved labour.
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