I do n't know how I can ever thank you for what you have done for me . '' `` Do n't try , '' replied Sammy shortly . `` I have n't done anything but what anybody else would have done . Old Mother Nature gave me a pair of good eyes and a strong voice . I simply make the best use of them I can . Just to see a hunter with a terrible gun makes me angry clear through . I 'd rather spoil his hunting than eat . '' `` You want to watch out , Sammy . One of these days a hunter will lose his temper and shoot you , just to get even with you , '' warned Paddy the Beaver . `` Do n't worry about me , '' replied Sammy . `` I know just how far those terrible guns can shoot , and I do n't take any chances . By the way , Lightfoot , the Green Forest is full of hunters looking for you . I 've seen a lot of them , and I know they are looking for you because they do not shoot at anybody else even when they have a chance . '' CHAPTER XX : Lightfoot Hears A Dreadful Sound Day after day , Lightfoot the Deer played hide and seek for his life with the hunters who were seeking to kill him . He saw them many times , though not one of them saw him . More than once a hunter passed close to Lightfoot 's hiding-place without once suspecting it . But poor Lightfoot was feeling the strain . He was growing thin , and he was so nervous that the falling of a dead leaf from a tree would startle him . There is nothing quite so terrible as being continually hunted . It was getting so that Lightfoot half expected a hunter to step out from behind every tree .
Only when the Black Shadows wrapped the Green XXXXX in darkness did he know a moment of peace .
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