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  The Animal Gazette __Daily News__ By Jesse Animal farm is getting worse and worse everyday. The pigs are doing human things such as sleeping in beds, and drinking alcohol. Since they started doing that, the original commandments are being changed and Napoleon suggests that we just forget what we originally wrote. They pigs are also stealing all of the apples and milk because they apparently can function better with more, and according to them, if they don’t eat more apples and drink more milk, then Animal Farm will suffer badly. I also gave birth to five puppies, and Napoleon took them to train them himself. My puppies are now Napoleons guard dogs and they are very mean. Napoleon even had them chase Snowball off of the farm. It’s awful. I just wish Animal Farm would go back to the way it was originally meant to be.

By Larissa Mason

__Sugar__ __Candy__ __Mountain__ By Moses I have a dream, I dream that one day we can all live on Sugar Candy Mountain in peace and happiness. For all animals out there, remember, you have to work your hardest because you will then be allowed to go to Sugar Candy Mountain. Sugar Candy Mountain is a place where all of the mountains are capped with frosting and sprinkles, and the trees are lollipops and rives are chocolate. Sugar Candy Mountain is like a dream. And it is my dream to have all of us animals living together in happiness. That is my dream…

By Larissa Mason 

__Sports__ BySquealer This Saturday at 6:00 p.m. the pigs are hosting the very first sheep-bowl, where there will be seven different athletic competitions. The sheep-bowl will be held in the honor of Napoleon. The seven events include hay bailing, horse shoes, egg balancing, barrel racing, sheep singing, animal race, and corn picking. Hay bailing will be a competition based on upper body strength, the hay bailing competition consists of an animal of any species to chuck as much hay into a horse cart as they can, and the animal with the most hay bailed wins the first competition. Horse shoes is the game in which any species is able to take a horses shoe and try to thrust it upon an bar protruding from the earth, the animal with the most horse shoes on the rings wins the second competition. The third competition consists of five pigs to balance an egg on the end of the spoon; the last pig with the egg on his spoon wins the third competition. Forth comp is just for the horses and it is barrel racing. The fifth competition is sheep singing to win this comp the sheep that can hold the note the longest wins. The sixth comp is animal racing any animal can join this comp and its pretty explanatory the animal who crosses the finish line first wins, And the last comp is corn picking the concept of this challenge is the same as hay bailing but with the concept of corn. The sports will be held in an triathlon style competition how it will work is there will be teams of five, once someone completes on comp the animal with the next comp may start or wait. The team who wins and completes all the competitions will receive the sheep-bowl gold gauntlet.

By Mike Steinberg

The Reign of Napoleon “Four legs good, two legs bad.” What has our farm come to? Napoleon and his men have taken over the farm, the farm we have worked so hard and fought for to keep. This farm belongs to all the animals, and no animal should be above another animal. We all have worked incredibly strong to take over this farm and keep in up and running in good condition. These days feel like times when Mr. Jones ran the farm, and other days things are absolutely worse, but most of the days, we all wish we were still in Mr. Jones’s care again.  The pigs every day are more and more like humans. One thing that we promised never to be like was the humans. The pigs now live in the house, have dinner parties, sleep in beds, drink alcohol, never work and mostly they treat us like the minority. If it wasn’t for us, this farm would never be as in good condition as it is today. We put forth all the effort, time, and work to keep this farm as perfect as we can, and we get nothing in return. Napoleon and his men are doing [|definitely]   not doing as much work as we are doing. They lie around like stuffed pigs and not accomplish any of the day’s goals. They didn’t do one thing to help us with the windmill, but order us around. They killed Boxer. Whether or not you believe me, I will tell you this, That van that took away boxer was a slaughter van, Napoleon called the slaughter house, because boxer could no longer work, but he has worked more than any animal, he worked twice as hard, and that’s what he gets in return. We need someone who will stick to the commandments and not change them, who will work with us and not sit in a house, a person who only associates with animals, and not humans, an animal who is pro animals and will not kill them in ANY situation, an animal who puts forth time and effort to watch all of us succeed in the duties that we need to do and not get drunk and have dinner parties with humans, we need a leader who will lead us, not make us fall.  I think its time to rebel! We need to stand up for ourselves. We are not going to get anywhere if Napoleon continues as our leader. We are going to fall faster than the Roman Empire if  we don’t stand up for ourselves. Its time to get a new leader, and forget about the hard times and the reign of Napoleon, so animals let me tell you, its time to take back the farm, take back what’s rightly ours. By: Lindsay Mudger 

What Really Happened to Snowball?

Where has our faithful leader gone to? Is he still alive or was he killed? Is he against animal farm, and on Mr. Jones side? Did he act upon the crimes he was accused of? Was he really the leader that Animal Farm should have had? Will he come back and save us from this evil, twisted, power taking pig? Those are the questions that run through our minds and maybe they will never be answered. I Benjamin, the donkey believe other wise. Snowball was a good leader and he was extremely nice to every animal on Animal Farm. Not one animal was more superior to any other animal, he saw animals as equals. For anyone who doesn’t believe that Snowball was good leader and cared about us, Shame on you! He made the commandments for us to follow because he cared that everything was fair, Napoleon and Squealer are the ones who are changing the commandments, to fit their needs. Snowball wanted Animal Farm to succeed, not collapse. Snowball is being accused for things that could never be possible. Snowball pushed forward in that fight against Mr. Jones and his men, he lead us to fight for what was right, and now we are going to just turn our backs to him? Never! The windmill was never snowball fault, how could one small pig destroy such a big building? It’s not possible. Napoleon wants us to believe these horrible gut trenching things that Snowball did, because if he didn’t do those things, everyone would of left, and Napoleon would have to do all the work himself. Napoleon wants all the power, animalism is not about power, its about believing in acting like an animal and fulfilling the duties that need to be completed to live a life of happiness and joy. Not a life of slavery and commitment to an animal that is so horrible and maleficent, and thinks   only about his self and not about anyone or anything on this farm. Snowball deserves better than what he is receiving from us. We are treating him as if he is a criminal. But in reality the only criminal is Napoleon and his men. As I walk around this torn up, dwelling place, I think about the times of Snowball. I look around at the suffering animals and remember the good ol’ times and think that soon enough we will be in Sugar Candy  Mountain and all of our troubles will be over, hopefully snowball will be there and he will lead us to  righteousness. Now we ask, where did Snowball go, did he do those hateful crimes he was accused with? The only answers that the animals can say are those of hatred and remorse.