Frugal Lifestyle

Snowball [excited]: Here am I, trying to educate these animals! *sigh* Oh! I’ll tell you how I toiled day and night just for these Animal Committees!

Narrator 1 [politely]: This is ____________ (group name) from class 104 presenting to you how Snowball tried to educate and change the animals!

Snowball [excitedly]: Let’s see what the animals need.. Right! The hens need to produce more eggs.

Narrator 2: And so Snowball created the Egg Production Committee.

Snowball [excited]: Alright, we’ll start with the eggs.

Hens: *cluck cluck sound effect* Um.. how do we go about doing this?

Snowball: *sigh*

Narrator 1: Seeing that his Egg Production Committee failed as the hens did not understand instructions, he tried creating the Clean Tails League for the cows.



Cows: *background moo sounds* This is absurd! We don’t need any clean tails, we can do without them all the same – see? We can swat these flies even if the tail is not clean.

Narrator 2: Apparently Snowball did not take into account that cows had no need for tails, so Snowball proceeded to create the Whiter Wool Movement for the sheep.

Narrator 1: The sheep were horrified as Snowball and his helpers brought pails of a liquid of weird colour. They started to panic and stormed out of the barn. The liquid was a bleach meant to whiten the wool of the sheep, but it smelled horrible.

Snowball [troubled]: Oh no. What do I do now? My committees have been unsuccessful.

Narrator 2: Regardless of his failures, he started the Wild Comrades’ Re-education Committee, meant to tame the rats and rabbits. These animals took advantage of the privileges they were granted.

Narrator 1: The rats stole some of the food supply from the farm and the rabbits ate some of the vegetables.

Rats [hurriedly]: Quick! Run away, they’ll get us! Get the food and run! *shuffling sounds*

Animals [aggressively]: Get back here! Don’t steal our food!



Narrator 2: The rabbits met with a similar situation, munching on the hay grown in the hayfield, leaving a whole patch of half-eaten and soggy hay. These animals behaved the same as before.

Narrator 1: The cat decided to join the Re-education Committee all of a sudden.

Cat [thinking to himself]: Oh yes! I could take advantage of this opportunity to eat some bird meat. Yeh heh heh.. (evil laughter)

Narrator 2: So the cat approached a group of sparrows on a roof.

Cat [excited]: All animals are now comrades! So now, you could perch on my paw. I would very much like this company!

Sparrows [angry]: Why should we? We see nothing to earn your company! Now get lost.

Narrator 1: The sparrows kept their distance, away from the cat. They saw his intentions to eat them, but hid it.

Sparrows [angry]: Now don’t bother us!

Narrator 2: Snowball, seeing as the committees failed, created reading and writing classes. These were a huge success. Almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree.

Dogs [arrogantly]: Hey animals, we can read! Could you? Haha. We wouldn’t read though, there’s nothing better to read but the Seven Commandments..

Muriel [response]: Oh yeah? I could read better than you dogs! I even read to others in the evenings. You should really read.

Benjamin [response]: Actually, there isn’t anything worth reading yet.

Clover [response]: I can’t put words together! *cries*

Boxer [response]: You’re right. I can’t read, I’m not very bright. *sigh* I don’t even know the first letters of the alphabet!

Mollie [response, giggly]: I don’t need to know all these! I only need to know my name! My name’s the only thing that’s worth spelling!

Narrator 1: And Mollie ran out of the barn to continue gazing at her reflection in the water. She then spelled her name out with twigs, only to be stamped on by Boxer who was trying to spell out the first four letters of the alphabet.

Narrator 2: He got to D when he accidentally stepped on the twigs. Mollie cried.

Snowball: Finally, something I did that is a success! However, not all animals know the whole alphabet. That’s how limited they are, I guess..

Narrator 1: Since most of the stupider animals were not able to learn the Seven Commandments by heart, Snowball reduced the Seven Commandments to a single maxim, “Four legs good, two legs bad.”

Snowball: Birds, you don’t have to panic! *background chirping* Your wings should be counted as legs too!

Narrator 2: The sheep then took a liking to this maxim and said it to every animal they saw.

Snowball: Hey sheep -- *interrupted*

Sheep: Four legs good, two legs bad!

Narrator 1: They loved it so much, they would keep saying it while following the animals they saw, pestering and stalking them.

Narrator 2: Napoleon took no interest in Snowball’s committees.

Napoleon: The education of the young are more important! And so I’ll be responsible for the puppies’ education.

Narrator 1: And so he disappeared. And thus Snowball’s efforts to educate and change the animals were mostly unsuccessful except for the reading and writing classes. Besides, Napoleon rejected his ideas, but he always did so anyway.