None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A.
It was also found that the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens, and ducks,
were unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart. After much thought
Snowball declared that the Seven Commandments could in eect be reduced to
a single maxim, namely: `Four legs good, two legs bad.' This, he said, contained
the essential principle of Animalism. Whoever had thoroughly grasped it would
be safe from human in
uences. The birds at rst objected, since it seemed to
them that they also had two legs, but Snowball proved to them that this was
not so