But the problem the animals could not at first solve was how to break up the stone into pieces of suitable size. There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand. The windmill presented unexpected difficulties. It was possible to foresee that the coming winter would be a hard one. The harvest was a little less successful than in the previous year, and two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough. Even so, it was found necessary to leave certain tasks undone. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. But they were happy in their work they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell (Chapter 6)Īll that year the animals worked like slaves.
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