Lightfoot was n't to be found , and no one whom Sammy met had seen Lightfoot for two days . Sammy felt badly . You see , he was very fond of Lightfoot . You remember it was Sammy who warned Lightfoot of the coming of the hunter on the morning when the dreadful hunting season began . Ever since the hunting season had opened , Sammy had done his best to make trouble for the hunters . Whenever he had found one of them he had screamed at the top of his voice to warn every one within hearing just where that hunter was . Once a hunter had lost his temper and shot at Sammy , but Sammy had suspected that something of the kind might happen , and he had taken care to keep just out of reach . Sammy had known all about the chasing of Lightfoot by the hounds . Everybody in the Green Forest had known about it . You see , everybody had heard the voices of those hounds . Once , Lightfoot had passed right under the tree in which Sammy was sitting , and a few moments later the two hounds had passed with their noses to the ground as they followed Lightfoot 's trail . That was the last Sammy had seen of Lightfoot . He had been able to save Lightfoot from the hunters , but he could n't save him from the hounds . The more Sammy thought things over , the more he worried . `` I am afraid those hounds drove him out where a hunter could get a shot and kill him , or else that they tired him out and killed him themselves , '' thought Sammy . `` If he were alive , somebody certainly would have seen him and nobody has , since the day those hounds chased him . I declare , I have quite lost my appetite worrying about him . If Lightfoot is dead , and I am almost sure he is , the Green Forest will never seem the same . '' CHAPTER XXVIII : The Hunting Season Ends The very worst things come to an end at last . No matter how bad a thing is , it can not last forever .
So it was with the hunting season for XXXXX the Deer .
Forest Lightfoot Sammy XXVIII days moments morning one right something