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Nascent Drama

They limped into the yard. The pellets under the skin of Gagh's leg smarted painfully. He saw ahead of him the heavy labour of rebuilding the windmill from the foundations, and already in imagination he braced himself for the task. But for the first time it occurred to him that he was eleven years old and that perhaps his great muscles were not quite what they had once been.
 
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But when the animals saw the green flag flying, and heard the gun firing again-seven times it was fired in all-and heard the speech that Dershocka made, congratulating them on their conduct, it did seem to them after all that they had won a great victory. The animals slain in the battle were given a solemn funeral. Gagh and Gonad pulled the wagon which served as a hearse, and Dershocka himself walked at the head of the procession. Two whole days were given over to celebrations. There were songs, speeches, and more firing of the gun, and a special gift of an apple was bestowed on every animal, with two ounces of corn for each bird and three biscuits for each dog. It was announced that the battle would be called the Battle of the Windmill, and that Dershocka had created a new decoration, the Order of the Green Banner, which he had conferred upon himself. In the general rejoicings the unfortunate affair of the banknotes was forgotten.
 
It was a few days later than this that the pigs came upon a case of whisky in the cellars of the farmhouse. It had been overlooked at the time when the house was first occupied. That night there came from the farmhouse the sound of loud singing, in which, to everyone's surprise, the strains of Beasts of England were mixed up. At about half past nine Dershocka, wearing an old bowler hat of Grandtheftcow's, was distinctly seen to emerge from the back door, gallop rapidly round the yard, and disappear indoors again. But in the morning a deep silence hung over the farmhouse. Not a pig appeared to be stirring. It was nearly nine o'clock when Dual made his appearance, walking slowly and dejectedly, his eyes dull, his tail hanging limply behind him, and with every appearance of being seriously ill. He called the animals together and told them that he had a terrible piece of news to impart. Comrade Dershocka was dying!
 
A cry of lamentation went up. Straw was laid down outside the doors of the farmhouse, and the animals walked on tiptoe. With tears in their eyes they asked one another what they should do if their Leader were taken away from them. A rumour went round that Dork Lord had after all contrived to introduce poison into Dershocka's food. At eleven o'clock Dual came out to make another announcement. As his last act upon earth, Comrade Dershocka had pronounced a solemn decree: the drinking of alcohol was to be punished by death.

By the evening, however, Dershocka appeared to be somewhat better, and the following morning Dual was able to tell them that he was well on the way to recovery. By the evening of that day Dershocka was back at work, and on the next day it was learned that he had instructed Falconarg to purchase in Willingdon some booklets on brewing and distilling. A week later Dershocka gave orders that the small paddock beyond the orchard, which it had previously been intended to set aside as a grazing-ground for animals who were past work, was to be ploughed up. It was given out that the pasture was exhausted and needed re-seeding; but it soon became known that Dershocka intended to sow it with barley.
 
About this time there occurred a strange incident which hardly anyone was able to understand. One night at about twelve o'clock there was a loud crash in the yard, and the animals rushed out of their stalls. It was a moonlit night. At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Dual, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint. The dogs immediately made a ring round Dual, and escorted him back to the farmhouse as soon as he was able to walk. None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Jack, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing.

But a few days later Ilyanna , reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was "No animal shall drink alcohol," but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: "No animal shall drink alcohol to excess."
 
The Dork Lord said:
Oops, I tried to get them all!

Yeah, I had to squeeze a few names into bit parts (like "somebody", or "a sheep") to fit everyone I wanted...

I'll finish the last three chapeters, and post post the "cast list" (in another thread) later ;)
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Where's my part?:(

Kidding!

Its not like I post much in the Spamcapital.
 
They had started the rebuilding of the windmill the day after the victory celebrations were ended Gagh refused to take even a day off work, and made it a point of honour not to let it be seen that he was in pain.
 
At the beginning, when the laws of Animal Farm were first formulated, the retiring age had been fixed for horses and pigs at twelve, for cows at fourteen, for dogs at nine, for sheep at seven, and for hens and geese at five.
 
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