Besides, being nice in his mind, he was naturally nice in his body.
The new personal regard thus roused by the presence of Snowball, had its development greatly assisted by the scrupulosity with which most things in the kitchen, and chief of all in this respect, the churn, were kept.

It required much effort to come up to the nicety considered by Jean indispensable in the churn; and the croucher on the ceiling, when he saw the long nose advance to prosecute inquiry into its condition, mentally trembled lest the next movement should condemn his endeavour as a failure.

With his clothes he could do nothing, alas! but he bathed every night in the Lorrie as soon as Donal had gone home with the cattle.

Once he got into a deep hole, but managed to get out again, and so learned that he could swim.
All day he was with Donal, and took from him by much the greater part of his labour: Donal had never had such time for reading.

In return he gave him his dinner, and Gibbie could do very well upon one meal a day.