[영어리딩] 동물농장(1) #Animal Farm

[영어리딩] 동물농장 #Animal Farm

 

I'm going to study classical novel

through the Youtube channel #강수정영어

The novel is so famous,

but I haven't read it in the original.

So I decided to study while writing slowly.

 

#1강

Mr. Jomes, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night,

but was too drunk to remember to shout the pop-holes.

With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side,

he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door,

drew himself  a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery,

and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.

 

As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and

a fluttering all through the farm buildings.

Word had gone round during the day that old Major, 

the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream in the previous night

and wished to communicate it to the other animals.

It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn

as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way.

Old Major (so he was always called, thought the name under which

he had been exhibited was Willingdon Beauty) was so highly regarded

on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour's sleep

in order to hear what he had to say.

At one end of the big barn in a sort of raised platform,

Major was already enconced on his bed of straw,

under a lantern which hung from a beam.

He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout,

but he was still a majestic-looking pig,

with a wise and benevlent apperanance in spite of the fact

 that his tushes and never been cut.

Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves

comfortable after theit different fashions.

First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs,

who settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform.

The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up

to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down

behind the pigs and began to chew the cud. 

The two cart-horses. Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly

and setting down their wast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small

animal concealed in the straw.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got

her figure back after her fourth foal.

Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high,

and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.

A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid apperance,

and in fact he was not of first-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for

his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work.

After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey.

Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered.

He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark -

for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off,

but that he would sonner have had no tail and no flies. Alone among to laugh at.

Nevertheless, without openly admitting it,

he was devoted to Boxer, the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small

paddock boyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.

 

The two horses had just lain down when a brood of duckings,

whick had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from

side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on.

Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg,

and the ducklings nestled down inside it and promtly fell asleep.

At the last monent Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing

daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar. She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane,

hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with.

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place,

and finally squeezed herself in betweeen Boxer and Clover, there she purred contentedly

throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

 

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