`` For my new antlers to grow , '' replied Lightfoot . `` When my new antlers are growing , I want to be away by myself . I do n't like to be seen without them or with halfgrown ones . Besides , I am very uncomfortable while the new antlers are growing and I want to be alone . '' Lightfoot spoke as if he really meant every word he said , but still Peter could n't , he just COULD N'T believe that those wonderful great antlers had grown out of Lightfoot 's head in a single summer . `` Where did you leave your old ones and when did they come off ? '' he asked , and there was doubt in the very tone of his voice . `` They dropped off last spring , but I do n't remember just where , '' replied Lightfoot . `` I was too glad to be rid of them to notice where they dropped . You see they were loose and uncomfortable , and I had n't any more use for them because I knew that my new ones would be bigger and better . I 've got one more point on each than I had last year . '' Lightfoot began once more to rub his antlers against the tree to get off the queer rags hanging to them and to polish the points . 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 .
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