In its place was a great longing to find Miss Daintyfoot . His great eyes became once more soft and beautiful . In them was a look of wistfulness . Lightfoot walked down to the edge of the water and drank , for he was very , very thirsty . Then he turned , intending to take up once more his search for beautiful Miss Daintyfoot . When he turned he faced the thicket in which Miss Daintyfoot was hiding . His keen eyes caught a little movement of the branches . A beautiful head was slowly thrust out , and Lightfoot gazed again into a pair of soft eyes which he was sure were the most beautiful eyes in all the Great World . He wondered if she would disappear and run away as she had the last time he saw her . He took a step or two forward . The beautiful head was withdrawn . Lightfoot 's heart sank . Then he bounded forward into that thicket . He more than half expected to find no one there , but when he entered that thicket he received the most wonderful surprise in all his life . There stood Miss Daintyfoot , timid , bashful , but with a look in her eyes which Lightfoot could not mistake . In that instant Light-foot understood the meaning of that longing which had kept him hunting for her and of the rage which had filled him when he had discovered the presence of the big stranger from the Great Mountain . It was love . Lightfoot knew that he loved Miss Daintyfoot and , looking into her soft , gentle eyes , he knew that Miss Daintyfoot loved him . CHAPTER XL : Happy Days In The Green Forest These were happy days in the Green Forest . At least , they were happy for Lightfoot the Deer .
They were the happiest XXXXX he had ever known .
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