The certainty of danger is sometimes easier to bear than the uncertainty of not knowing whether or not there really is any danger . Lightfoot felt that if he could know just where the hunter was , he himself would know better what to do . The hunter might have become discouraged and given up following him . In that case he could rest and stop worrying . It would be better to know that he was being followed than not to know . But how was he to find out ? Lightfoot kept turning this over and over in his mind as he traveled through the Green Forest . Then an idea came to him . `` I know what I 'll do . I know just what I 'll do , '' said Lightfoot to himself . `` I 'll find out whether or not that hunter is still following me and I 'll get a little rest . Goodness knows , I need a rest . '' Lightfoot bounded away swiftly and ran for some distance , then he turned and quickly , but very , very quietly , returned in the direction from which he had just come but a little to one side of his old trail . After a while he saw what he was looking for , a pile of branches which woodchoppers had left when they had trimmed the trees they had cut down . This was near the top of a little hill . Lightfoot went up the hill and stopped behind the pile of brush . For a few moments he stood there perfectly still , looking and listening . Then , with a little sigh of relief , he lay down , where , without being in any danger of being seen himself , he could watch his old trail through the hollow at the bottom of the hill . If the hunter were still following him , he would pass through that hollow in plain sight . For a long tune Lightfoot rested comfortably behind the pile of brush .
There was not a suspicious movement or a suspicious sound to show that danger was abroad in the Green XXXXX .
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