Snowball also busy himself with organising the other animals into what he called Animal Committees. He was indefatigable at this. He formed the Egg Production Committee for the hens，the Clean Tails League for the cows，the Wild Comrades’ Re-education Committee （the object of this was to tame the rats and rabbits）， the Whiter Wool Movement for the sheep，and various others，besides instituting classes in reading and writing.
On the whole， these project were a failure. The attempt to tame the wild creatures，for instance，broke down almost immediately. They continued to behave very much as before，and when treated with generosity，simply took advantage of it. The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who choose could come and perch on her paw；but the sparrows kept their distance.
The reading and writing classes，however，were a great success. By the autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree.
As for the pigs，they could already read and write perfectly. The dogs learned to read fairly well， but were not interested in reading anything except the Seven Commandments.
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