CHAPTER XXV : The Hunter Lies In Wait If ever there was an angry hunter , it was the one who had followed Lightfoot the Deer across the Big River . When he was ordered to get off the land where Lightfoot had climbed out , he got back into his boat , but he did n't row back to the other side . Instead , he rowed down the river , finally landing on the same side but on land which Lightfoot 's friend did not own . `` When that Deer has become rested he 'll become uneasy , '' thought the hunter . `` He wo n't stay on that man 's land . He 'll start for the nearest woods . I 'll go up there and wait for him . I 'll get that Deer if only to spite that fellow back there who drove me off . Had it not been for him , I 'd have that Deer right now . He was too tired to have gone far . He 's got the handsomest pair of antlers I 've seen for years . I can sell that head of his for a good price . '' So the hunter tied his boat to a tree and once more climbed out . He climbed up the bank and studied the land . Across a wide meadow he could see a brushy old pasture and back of that some thick woods . He grinned . `` That 's where that Deer will head for , '' he decided . `` There is n't any other place for him to go . All I 've got to do is be patient and wait . '' So the hunter took his terrible gun and tramped across the meadow to the brush-grown pasture .
There he hid among the bushes where he could peep out and watch the land of XXXXX 's friend .
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