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Animal Farm by George Orwell
A little way down that pasture there was a knoll that commanded a view of most of the farm. The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. Yes, it was theirs-- everything that they could see was theirs! In the ecstasy of that thought they gamboled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement.
Describe the mood of this passage.
What is happy, overjoyed, ecstatic, excied, victorious!?