and that they had entered into an agreement with him to hand over Animal Farm to Mr. Frederick.
They added that Snowball had privately admitted to them that he had been Jones's secret agent for years past.
When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out,
and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess.
The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion over the eggs now came forward
and stated that Snowball had appeared to them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napoleon's orders. They, too, were slaughtered.
Then a goose came forward and confessed to having secreted six ears of corn during the last year's harvest and eaten them in the night.
Then a sheep confessed to having urinated in the drinking pool—urged to do this, so she said, by Snowball—
and two other sheep confessed to having murdered an old ram, an especially devoted follower of Napoleon,
by chasing him round and round a bonfire when he was suffering from a cough. They were all slain on the spot.
And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet
and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones.
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