"How can I follow the plough when I can't see where it's going?" he asked.
"Silly!" Mr. Blackbird jeered. "You can find your way along a furrow, can't you?"
Grandfather Mole thought he could do that. "But you're forgetting Henry Hawk!" he reminded Mr. Blackbird. "Farmer Green ploughs in the daytime. And Henry Hawk might see me."
"He wouldn't be likely to notice you if you crept along the bottom of a furrow," Mr. Blackbird assured Grandfather Mole. "Anyhow, I'll be there. And I'll warn you if Henry Hawk appears in the sky."
Grandfather Mole was relieved. And Mr. Blackbird told him to be ready the next morning.
XXV
STUBBORN AS EVER
Farmer Green hadn't finished ploughing his first furrow before Mr. Blackbird and Grandfather Mole began breakfasting on the angleworms that the plough turned up.