These seven commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on animal Farm must live for ever after.

When time passed and the animals had evidently not starved to death, Frederick and Pilkington changed their tune and began to talk of the terrible wickedness that now flourished on animal Farm.

The diaries of the George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were published last year, exactly 70 years to the day since the novelist wrote it.