`` He 's coming ! '' cried Sammy . `` A hunter with a terrible gun is coming ! '' CHAPTER VI : A Game Of Hide And Seek There was a game of hide and seek that Danny Meadow Mouse once played with Buster Bear . It was a very dreadful game for Danny . But hard as it was for Danny , it did n't begin to be as hard as the game Lightfoot the Deer was playing with the hunter in the Green Forest . In the case of Buster Bear and Danny , the latter had simply to keep out of reach of Buster . As long as Buster did n't get his great paws on Danny , the latter was safe . Then , too , Danny is a very small person . He is so small that he can hide under two or three leaves . Wherever he is , he is pretty sure to find a hiding-place of some sort . His small size gives him advantages in a game of hide and seek . It certainly does . But Lightfoot the Deer is big . He is one of the largest of the people who live in the Green Forest . Being so big , it is not easy to hide . Moreover , a hunter with a terrible gun does not have to get close in order to kill . Lightfoot knew all this as he waited for the coming of the hunter of whom Sammy Jay had warned him . He had learned many lessons in the hunting season of the year before and he remembered every one of them . He knew that to forget even one of them might cost him his life .
So , standing motionless behind a tangle of fallen trees , XXXXX listened and watched .
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