The Speaking Crab by Cecil Henry Bompas (adapted excerpt)
At this sound the farmer was very frightened, and puzzled also; for he thought, "If this were a human being crying, everyone in the
neighborhood would have heard and woke up, but it seems that I alone am able to hear the sound; who can it be who is talking about my
servants?" So, he went back to bed and told no one. The next morning when the laborer looked for his yoke ropes, he missed one; and then he
remembered that he had used it to tie up the crab; so, he went to the place and found his rope. When his master brought them their breakfast
that day and they had finished eating, the laborer began to tell how he had lost one of the yoke ropes and had found it again: and how he had
used it for tying up the crab which he had found. The master asked whether the crab was alive or dead; and the laborer said that it was dead.
Then the master said "My man you have done a very foolish thing why did you tie it up alive? Last night!
I could not sleep for its crying. Why did
you imprison the innocent creature?" "And he told them the song it had sung and forbade
them ever to cause such pain to living creatures. He
said "Decide its fate outright or you will bring disgrace me; when I heard the lament, I thought it was a man, but now I learn from you that it
was a crab. I forbid you ever to do the like again." And at the time of the Sohral festival the farmer called together all his household and sang
them the song and explained its meaning to them, and the men who heard it remember it to this day.

Read the passage from animal farm. as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead—she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. she knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and accept the leadership of napoleon. but still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. it was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of jones's gun. such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them. what was most likely orwell’s purpose for writing this passage? to show that clover is more sensitive to violence than the others to remind readers of major's speech and the original rebellion to present napoleon as a cruel leader unworthy of the animals’ support to represent misled followers and their dashed hopes for better lives