In Chapter Nine of Animal Farm, the pigs have a crate of whiskey delivered to the farm. The other animals are uncertain where the funds to buy the crate have come from:
The word went round that from somewhere or other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whisky.
Arguably, the pigs were able to buy this crate as a result of Boxer's death, another key event in Chapter Nine. When Boxer is taken away in a van, for example, Squealer says that he is going to see a vet in nearby Willingdon but the writing on the van suggests otherwise:
Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal.
It appears, then, that the pigs have sold Boxer to a glue manufacturer and will profit from his death. When the animals express outrage over this, Squealer says that the writing on the van is a mistake; that the van was recently purchased by the vet who has not had time to change the writing. But Squealer and Napoleon have deliberately misled the others: the farm is doing so badly and food is so scarce that the money must have come from Boxer's death.
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