"I will," he agreed. "And I'll ask you not to forget to dig hard, because you know I'll be watching hard. And it wouldn't be fair for one of us to do less work than the other."
Benny Badger replied that in his opinion Mr. Coyote's statement was in every way reasonable.
And then he began to dig.
Benny would have made better time had he not stopped every few minutes to listen; for he did not want to miss hearing Mr. Coyote's call.
But his ears caught nothing more than a chuckle from the spot where Mr. Coyote sat on his haunches in the grass, watching.
"I can stand his chuckling—if only he won't sing!" Benny said to himself.