Lightfoot quivered all over with rage . The hair on the back of his neck stood up . Lightfoot the Deer looked anything but gentle . After he had vented his spite for a few minutes on the harmless , helpless bushes , he threw his head high in the air and whistled angrily . Then he leaped over the Laughing Brook and once more began to search through the Green Forest . But this time it was not for the beautiful stranger with the dainty feet . He had no time to think of her now . He must first find this newcomer and he meant to waste no time in doing it . CHAPTER XXXV : Lightfoot Is Reckless In his search for the new stranger who had come to the Green Forest , Lightfoot the Deer was wholly reckless . He no longer stole like a gray shadow from thicket to thicket as he had done when searching for the beautiful stranger with the dainty feet . He bounded along , careless of how much noise he made . From time to time he would stop to whistle a challenge and to clash his horns against the trees and stamp the ground with his feet . After such exhibitions of anger he would pause to listen , hoping to hear some sound which would tell him where the stranger was . Now and then he found the stranger 's tracks , and from them he knew that this stranger was doing : just what he had been doing , seeking to find the beautiful newcomer with the dainty feet . Each time he found these signs Lightfoot 's rage increased . Of course it did n't take Sammy Jay long to discover what was going on . There is little that escapes those sharp eyes of Sammy Jay . As you know , he had early discovered the game of hide and seek Lightfoot had been playing with the beautiful young visitor who had come down to the Green Forest from the Great Mountain . Then , by chance , Sammy had visited the Laughing Brook just as the big stranger had come down there to drink . For once Sammy had kept his tongue still .
`` There is going to be excitement here when XXXXX discovers this fellow , '' thought Sammy .
Brook Deer Forest Jay Lightfoot Mountain Sammy XXXV first minutes