It was decided to set the gun up at the foot of the Flagstaff, like a piece of artillery, and to fire it twice a year

It was decided to set the gun up at the foot of the Flagstaff, like a piece of artillery, and to fire it twice a year – once on October the twelfth, the anniversary of the Battle of the Cowshed, and once on Midsummer Day, the anniversary of the Rebellion.

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter 4. This was Jones’s gun, which had been found lying in the mud after the battle.

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