`` Your heart is all right , Lightfoot , but you are too timid and gentle to frighten any one . Big as you are I would n't fear you . '' With a single swift bound Lightfoot sprang out in front of Peter . He stamped his sharp hoofs , lowered his handsome head until the sharp points of his antlers , which people call horns , pointed straight at Peter , lifted the hair along the back of his neck , and made a motion as if to plunge at him . His eyes , which Peter had always thought so soft and gentle , seemed to flash fire . `` Oh ! '' cried Peter in a faint , frightened-sounding voice and leaped to one side before it entered his foolish little head that Lightfoot was just pretending . Lightfoot chuckled . `` Did you say I could n't frighten any one ? '' he demanded . `` I -- I did n't know you could look so terribly fierce , '' stammered Peter . `` Those antlers look really dangerous when you point them that way . Why -- why -- what is that hanging to them ? It looks like bits of old fur . Have you been tearing somebody 's coat , Lightfoot ? '' Peter 's eyes were wide with wonder and suspicion . CHAPTER II : Lightfoot 's New Antlers Peter Rabbit was puzzled . He stared at Lightfoot the Deer a wee bit suspiciously . `` Have you been tearing somebody 's coat ? '' he asked again .
He did n't like to think it of XXXXX , whom he always had believed quite as gentle , harmless , and timid as himself .
CHAPTER Deer Lightfoot Peter Rabbit antlers eyes fire head right