Anglais

The animals have taken control of Mr. Jones’s farm. The pigs, led by Napoleon and Snowball, decide to organize their new society…
The animals had their breakfast, and then 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 the hay harvest. But there is another matter that must be attended to first. »
The pigs now revealed 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 and which had been thrown on the rubbish heap. Napoleon sent for pots of black and white paint and led the way down to the five-barred gate that gave on to the main road. Then Snowball (for it was snowball who was best at writing) took a brush between the two knuckles of his trotter, painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar of the gate and in its place painted ANIMAL FARM. This was to be the name of the farm from now onwards. After this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder. They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandment. These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after. With some difficulty, Snowball climbed up and set to work. The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards 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.
3 - No animal shall wear clothes.
4 - No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5 - No animal shall drink alcohol.
6 - No animal shall kill any other animal.
7 - All animals are equal.

It was very neatly written, and except that « friend » was written «