Author: George Orwell
When asked whether he was not happier now that Jones was gone, he would say only “Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey,” and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw;
The birds at first objected, since it seemed to them that they also had two legs, but Snowball proved to them that this was not so.
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
This, said Squealer, was something called tactics.
He repeated a number of times, “Tactics, comrades, tactics!” skipping
He was always referred to in formal style as “our Leader, Comrade Napoleon,”