Once the big stranger managed to reach Lightfoot 's right shoulder with one of the sharp points of his antlers and made a long tear in Lightfoot 's gray coat . It only made Lightfoot fight harder . Sometimes they would rear up and strike with their sharp hoofs . Back and forth they plunged , and the ground was torn up by their feet . Both were getting out of breath , and from time to time they had to stop for a moment 's rest . Then they would come together again more fiercely than ever . Never had such a fight been seen in the Green Forest . CHAPTER XXXVIII : An Unseen Watcher As Lightfoot the Deer and the big stranger from the Great Mountain fought in the little opening near the pond of Paddy the Beaver , neither knew or cared who saw them . Each was filled fully with rage and determined to drive the other from the Green Forest . Each was fighting for the right to win the love of Miss Daintyfoot . Neither of them knew that Miss Daintyfoot herself was watching them . But she was . She had heard the clash of their great antlers as they had come together the first time , and she had known exactly what it meant . Timidly she had stolen forward to a thicket where , safely hidden , she could watch that terrible fight . She knew that they were fighting for her . Of course . She knew it just as she had known how both had been hunting for her . What she did n't know for some time was which one she wanted to win that fight . Both Lightfoot and the big stranger were handsome . Yes , indeed , they were very handsome .
XXXXX was just a little bit the bigger and it seemed to her just a little bit the handsomer .
CHAPTER Daintyfoot Forest Lightfoot Mountain Paddy antlers first right thicket