A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals rememberd -or thought they remembered - that the Sixth Commandment decreed "No animal shall kill any other animal." But when the animals consulted the barn wall, to their surprise, it said "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause." Somehow the other two words had slipped out of the animals' memories.

The animals worked harder than ever before, for they had little time to finish rebuilding the windmill, let alone with walls twice as thick.

Animal Farm posessed a large pile of timber of high value. Arracngements were being made to sell the timber to Pilkington. Snowball was believed to be hiding in Pinchfield Farm, so negotiations with Frederick were out of the question.

One day,to the surprise of the animals, Napoleon informed them that the timber would be sold to Frederick, and in fact, Napoleon had been in secret negotiations with Frederick from the beginning. It also turned out that Snowball had never been to Pinchfield, but had lived at Foxwood since his expulsion.

Frederick's men came to cart away the timber later that week. He left the sum of money at Animal Farm. Three days later, it was learned that Frederick's money was counterfeit. the very next morning, the attack came. Fifteen of Frederick's men armed with half a dozen guns charged Animal Farm. The animals were easily overwhelmed, and they retreated to the farm house. While they fell back, the men proceeded to destroy the windmill with blasting powder. With that, the animals' courage returned, and they attacked with fury. The men fled in terror. The animal's had won, but at a cost. Animals were dead, wounded, and the windmill ceased to exist.

In celebration, the pigs found and quickly confiscated a case of whiskey. The animals heard them partying all through the night. When the pigs recovered from their considerable hangovers, it was decided that the drinking of alchohol was punishable by death. The pigs later devoted a whole field to barley, and when the animals consulted the barn, thinking that a Commandment said "No animal shall drink alchohol," instead they found it stated "No animal shall drink alchohol to excess." They found Squealer beneath it, a paintbrush in his trotter, laying next to a pail of paint and a broken ladder.

Written By Tyler Wolf

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