“That was part of the arrangement!” cried Squealer. “Jones's shot only grazed him.”
“I could show you this in his own writing, if you were able to read it. The plot was for Snowball, at the critical moment,
to give the signal for flight and leave the field to the enemy. And he very nearly succeeded—”
I will even say, comrades, he would have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic Leader, Comrade Napoleon.”
Do you not remember how, just at the moment when Jones and his men had got inside the yard, Snowball suddenly turned and fled,
and many animals followed him? And do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment,”
when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of ‘Death to Humanity!’
and sank his teeth in Jones's leg? Surely you remember that, comrades?” exclaimed Squealer, frisking from side to side.
Now when Squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it.
At any rate, they remembered that at the critical moment of the battle Snowball had turned to flee.
But Boxer was still a little uneasy. “I do not believe that Snowball was a traitor at the beginning,” he said finally.
“What he has done since is different. But I believe that at the Battle of the Cowshed he was a good comrade.”
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