Billy Mink hurried to a safe place on the dam of Paddy the Beaver . Paddy himself climbed up on the roof of his house out in the pond . Peter Rabbit and Jumper the Hare , who happened to be not far away , hurried over where they could peep out from under some young hemlock-trees . Buster Bear shuffled down the hill and watched from the other side of the pond . Reddy and Granny Fox were both there . For what seemed like the longest time , but which was for only a minute , Lightfoot and the big stranger stood still , glaring at each other . Then , snorting with rage , they lowered their heads and plunged together . Their antlers clashed with a noise that rang through the Green Forest , and both fell to their knees . There they pushed and struggled . Then they separated and backed away , to repeat the movement over again . It was a terrible fight . Everybody said so . If they had not known before , everybody knew now what those great antlers were for . Once the big stranger managed to reach Lightfoot 's right shoulder with one of the sharp points of his antlers and made a long tear in Lightfoot 's gray coat . It only made Lightfoot fight harder . Sometimes they would rear up and strike with their sharp hoofs . Back and forth they plunged , and the ground was torn up by their feet . Both were getting out of breath , and from time to time they had to stop for a moment 's rest . Then they would come together again more fiercely than ever . Never had such a fight been seen in the Green Forest .
CHAPTER XXXVIII : An Unseen Watcher As Lightfoot the Deer and the big stranger from the Great Mountain fought in the little opening near the pond of XXXXX the Beaver , neither knew or cared who saw them .
Bear Forest Fox Lightfoot Mink Paddy Rabbit hemlock-trees minute right