In fact , the hunter had not had so much as another glimpse of Lightfoot . The reason that the hunter had been so disappointed was that Lightfoot was smart . He was smart enough to understand that the man who was saving him from the hunter had done it because he was a true friend . All the afternoon Lightfoot had rested on a bed of soft hay in an open shed and had watched this man going about his work and taking the utmost care to do nothing to frighten Lightfoot . `` He not only will let no one else harm me , but he himself will not harm me , '' thought Lightfoot . `` As long as he is near , I am safe . I 'll stay right around here until the hunting season is over , then I 'll swim back across the Big River to my home in the dear Green Forest . '' So all afternoon Lightfoot rested and did not so much as put his nose outside that open shed . That is why the hunter got no glimpse of him . When it became dark , so dark that he knew there was no longer danger , Lightfoot got up and stepped out under the stars . He was feeling quite himself again . His splendid strength had returned . He bounded lightly across the meadow and up into the brushy pasture where the hunter had been hidden . There and in the woods back of the pasture he browsed , but at the first hint of the coming of another day , Lightfoot turned back , and when his friend , the farmer , came out early in the morning to milk the cows , there was Lightfoot back in the open shed . The farmer smiled . `` You are as wise as you are handsome , old fellow , '' said he . CHAPTER XXVII : Sammy Jay Worries It is n't often Sammy Jay worries about anybody but himself . Truth to tell , he does n't worry about himself very often . You see , Sammy is smart , and he knows he is smart . Under that pointed cap of his are some of the cleverest wits in all the Green Forest .
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