He was feeling quite himself again . His splendid strength had returned . He bounded lightly across the meadow and up into the brushy pasture where the hunter had been hidden . There and in the woods back of the pasture he browsed , but at the first hint of the coming of another day , Lightfoot turned back , and when his friend , the farmer , came out early in the morning to milk the cows , there was Lightfoot back in the open shed . The farmer smiled . `` You are as wise as you are handsome , old fellow , '' said he . CHAPTER XXVII : Sammy Jay Worries It is n't often Sammy Jay worries about anybody but himself . Truth to tell , he does n't worry about himself very often . You see , Sammy is smart , and he knows he is smart . Under that pointed cap of his are some of the cleverest wits in all the Green Forest . Sammy seldom worries about himself because he feels quite able to take care of himself . But Sammy Jay was worrying now . He was worrying about Lightfoot the Deer . Yes , Sir , Sammy Jay was worrying about Lightfoot the Deer . For two days he had been unable to find Lightfoot or any trace of Lightfoot . But he did find plenty of hunters with terrible guns . It seemed to him that they were everywhere in the Green Forest . Sammy began to suspect that one of them must have succeeded in killing Lightfoot the Deer . Sammy knew all of Lightfoot 's hiding-places . He visited every one of them .
Lightfoot was n't to be found , and no one whom XXXXX met had seen Lightfoot for two days .
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