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Практический курс английского языка - Камянова Т.

Камянова Т. Практический курс английского языка — М.: Дом Славянской Книги, 2005. — 384 c.
ISBN 5-85550-177-9
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Their most faithful pupils were the two cart horses, Boxer and Clover. These two had great difficulty tn thinking anything out for themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers they supported everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other animals by simple arguments.
Now, as it turned out, the Rebellion was achieved much earlier and more easily than anyone had expected. In past years Mr. Jones used to be a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days drinking more than was good for him. For whole days he would sit in his old armchair in the kitchen, reading the newspapers and drinking. The men working at him were lazy and dishonest, the fields were half empty, his house needed rebuilding, and his animals were not well fed.
June came, and the hay was almost ready for cutting. On Saturday Mr. Jones went to the town and got so drunk that he didn't come back till midday on Sunday. The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone hunting, without bothering to feed the animals. When Mr. Jones came back, he immediately went to sleep on the drawing-room sofa with News of the World over his face, so that when evening came the animals were still unfed. At last they couldn't stand it any longer. One of the cows broke in the door of the storehouse with her horn, and all the animals began to help themselves to everything that was in. It was just then when Mr. Jones woke up. The next moment he and his four men were in the storehouse with whips in their hands. That was more that the hungry animals could bear. All of a sudden though nothing of the kind had been planned beforehand, they threw themselves over the men and started to turn them out of the building. The situation was quite out of the control. Mr. Jones and his men had never seen animals behave like this before. After only a moment or two they gave up trying to defend themselves, and rapidly ran away. A minute later all five of them were on the lane that led to the main road, with the animals following them in triumph.
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Mrs. Jones looked out of the bedroom window, saw what was happening, quickly packed her things and slipped out of the farm by another way. And so, almost before they knew what was happening, the Rebellion was successfully carried through, Jones was turned out of his house, and the Farm was theirs.
For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune. Their first act was to make quite sure that no human being was hiding anywhere in the farm. Then they ran back to the farm buildings to destroy everything that reminded them of Mr. Jones's times. They broke the door of the stable, they threw away the nose-rings, the dog chains, the cruel knives with which Mr. Jones used to castrate the pigs and lambs. Then they laid a fire in the yard. All the animals were full of joy when they saw whips going up in flames. Snowball also threw into the fire the ribbons with which the horses had usually been decorated on market days.
«Ribbons,» he said, «should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of human being. All animals should go naked.»
After everything possible had been destroyed, Napoleon led the animals back to the storehouse and gave a double portion of com to everybody, with two biscuits for each dog. Then they sang «Beasts of England» from end to end seven times, and after that they settled down for the night and slept as they have never slept before.
But they woke up at dawn as usual, and suddenly remembering their glorious victory and their new fate they ran to the top of the hill, where from in the morning light they could see all the farm which now belonged to them. Yes, it was theirs - everything that they could see was theirs! It goes without saying, how happy they were. Then they returned to the farm and made a tour of inspection of the whole farm again. It was as though they had never seen anything there before, and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own.
Then the animals had their breakfast" and Snowball and Napoleon called them together again.
«Comrades,» said Snowball, «it is half past six and we have a long day before us. Today we begin a hay harvest. But there is another matter that must be attended to first.»
And the pigs announced that during the past three months they had taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book which had belonged to Mr Jones's children. Then Napoleon explained that by their studies of the past three months they had succeeded in shortening the principles of Animalism to seven commandments. These seven commandments would now be written on the wall; and they would form a law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live forever after. The commandments were written by Snowball in great white letters so that they could be read from far away. They ran thus:
THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
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