Peter watched in silence for a few minutes . Then , all his suspicions returning , he said : `` But you have n't told me anything about those rags hanging to your antlers . '' `` And you have n't believed what I have already told you , '' retorted Lightfoot . `` I do n't like telling things to people who wo n't believe me . '' CHAPTER III : Lightfoot Tells How His Antlers Grew It is hard to believe what seems impossible . And yet what seems impossible to you may be a very commonplace matter to some one else . So it does not do to say that a thing can not be possible just because you can not understand how it can be . Peter Rabbit wanted to believe what Lightfoot the Deer had just told him , but somehow he could n't . If he had seen those antlers growing , it would have been another matter . But he had n't seen Lightfoot since the very last of winter , and then Lightfoot had worn just such handsome antlers as he now had . So Peter really could n't be blamed for not being able to believe that those old ones had been lost and in their place new ones had grown in just the few months of spring and summer . But Peter did n't blame Lightfoot in the least , because he had told Peter that he did n't like to tell things to people who would n't believe what he told them when Peter had asked him about the rags hanging to his antlers . `` I 'm trying to believe it , '' he said , quite humbly . `` It 's all true , '' broke in another voice . Peter jumped and turned to find his big cousin , Jumper the Hare . Unseen and unheard , he had stolen up and had overheard what Peter and Lightfoot had said . `` How do you know it is true ? '' snapped Peter a little crossly , for Jumper had startled him . `` Because I saw Lightfoot 's old antlers after they had fallen off , and I often saw Lightfoot while his new ones were growing , '' retorted Jumper . `` All right !
I 'll believe anything that XXXXX tells me if you say it is true , '' declared Peter , who greatly admires his cousin , Jumper .
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