He was over near the pond of Paddy the Beaver . As soon as he saw him , Sammy began to scream at the top of his lungs . At once he heard the sound of snapping twigs at the top of a little ridge back of Paddy 's pond and knew that Lightfoot had heard and understood . CHAPTER XXXVII : The Great Fight Down from the top of the ridge back of the pond of Paddy the Beaver plunged Lightfoot the Deer , his eyes blazing with rage . He had understood the screaming of Sammy Jay . He knew that somewhere down there was the big stranger he had been looking for . The big stranger had understood Sammy 's screaming quite as well as Lightfoot . He knew that to run away now would be to prove himself a coward and forever disgrace himself in the eyes of Miss Daintyfoot , for that was the name of the beautiful stranger he had been seeking . He MUST fight . There was no way out of it , he MUST fight . The hair on the back of his neck stood up with anger just as did the hair on the neck of Lightfoot . His eyes also blazed . He bounded out into a little open place by the pond of Paddy the Beaver and there he waited . Meanwhile Sammy Jay was flying about in the greatest excitement , screaming at the top of his lungs , `` A fight ! A fight ! A fight ! '' Blacky the Crow , over in another part of the Green Forest , heard him and took up the cry and at once hurried over to Paddy 's pond . Everybody who was near enough hurried there . Bobby Coon and Unc ' Billy Possum climbed trees from which they could see and at the same time be safe . Billy Mink hurried to a safe place on the dam of Paddy the Beaver .
XXXXX himself climbed up on the roof of his house out in the pond .
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