CHAPTER XXXV : Lightfoot Is Reckless In his search for the new stranger who had come to the Green Forest , Lightfoot the Deer was wholly reckless . He no longer stole like a gray shadow from thicket to thicket as he had done when searching for the beautiful stranger with the dainty feet . He bounded along , careless of how much noise he made . From time to time he would stop to whistle a challenge and to clash his horns against the trees and stamp the ground with his feet . After such exhibitions of anger he would pause to listen , hoping to hear some sound which would tell him where the stranger was . Now and then he found the stranger 's tracks , and from them he knew that this stranger was doing : just what he had been doing , seeking to find the beautiful newcomer with the dainty feet . Each time he found these signs Lightfoot 's rage increased . Of course it did n't take Sammy Jay long to discover what was going on . There is little that escapes those sharp eyes of Sammy Jay . As you know , he had early discovered the game of hide and seek Lightfoot had been playing with the beautiful young visitor who had come down to the Green Forest from the Great Mountain . Then , by chance , Sammy had visited the Laughing Brook just as the big stranger had come down there to drink . For once Sammy had kept his tongue still . `` There is going to be excitement here when Lightfoot discovers this fellow , '' thought Sammy . `` If they ever meet , and I have a feeling that they will , there is going to be a fight worth seeing . I must pass the word around . '' So Sammy Jay hunted up his cousin , Blacky the Crow , and told him what he had discovered . Then he hunted up Bobby Coon and told him . He saw Unc ' Billy Possum sitting in the doorway of his hollow tree and told him . He discovered Jumper the Hare sitting under a little hemlock-tree and told him . Then he flew over to the dear Old Briar-patch to tell Peter Rabbit .
Of course he told Drummer the Woodpecker , Tommy Tit the Chickadee , and Yank Yank the Nuthatch , who were over in the Old Orchard , and they at once hurried to the Green Forest , for they could n't think of missing anything so exciting as would be the meeting between Lightfoot and the big stranger from the Great XXXXX .
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