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Winter was freezing! The ground was frozen solid so we couldn't do anything on the fields. The pigs were planning the next season so we had many meetings in the barn. We decided that the pigs should decide all the questions of farm policy but their decisions had to have a majority vote. This was a great system except for the fact that Napoleon and Snowball never agreed! They never ever agreed. Some debates were violent. Snowball often won the majority because of his amazing speeches. But Napoleon was better at gaining support in between times. He would have the sheep bleat "Four legs good two legs bad" when Snowball said something important. Normally I found myself siding with Napoleon. After all, "Napoleon is always right." The biggest debate happened today over the idea of the windmill. Snowball said that we should build a windmill to power everything electrically so that we wouldn't have to work as much. He said that it would take a lot of effort to make it but that it should take a year to make it. As usual Napoleon and Snowball never agreed. Napoleon was against the idea of a windmill saying that we should be focusing on growing food and preparing for when or if the farmers attack again. Snowball's plans were completed and he took us away with the most beautiful speech we had heard. It described Animal Farm as it should be with the windmill. It was Napoleon's turn. All he did was stand there. Then he let out a high-pitched squealing sound and all of a sudden these dogs jumped out and started chasing Snowball out of the barn. Snowball eventually jumped into a hedge and escaped. I realized that the dogs that chased Snowball were the ones that I had forgotten about. The ones of Jesse and Bluebell. Napoleon told us that there were to be no more Sunday Meetings. All we would do Sunday morning is assemble, salute the flag, sing Beasts of England, and get our orders for the week. No more debates. Out of nowhere Napoleon said that the windmill shall be built. He said that it would take at least two years. Squealer later explained to us that the windmill idea was originally Napoleon's idea and that Snowball stole the idea from Napoleon and claimed it to be his own. We then wondered why Napoleon seemed to oppose the idea so much in the debate. Squealer said it was something called tactics. I don't know what that means.