the stones they had broken and carried so laboriously scattered all around.
Unable at first to speak, they stood gazing mournfully at the litter of fallen stone.
Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground.
His tail had grown rigid and twitched sharply from side to side, a sign in him of intense mental activity.
Suddenly he halted as though his mind were made up. “Comrades,” he said quietly,
“do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill?
SNOWBALL!” he suddenly roared in a voice of thunder.
“Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion,
this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year.
Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball.
‘Animal Hero, Second Class,’ and half a bushel of apples to any animal who brings him to justice. A full bushel to anyone who captures him alive!”
The animals were shocked beyond measure to learn that even Snowball could be guilty of such an action.
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