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 days he had ever known . You see , he had won beautiful , slender , young Miss Daintyfoot , and now she was no longer Miss Daintyfoot but Mrs. Lightfoot . Lightfoot was sure that there was no one anywhere so beautiful as she , and Mrs. Lightfoot knew that there was no one so handsome and brave as he . Wherever Lightfoot went , Mrs. Lightfoot went . He showed her all his favorite hiding-places . He led her to his favorite eating-places . She did not tell him that she was already acquainted with every one of them , that she knew the Green Forest quite as well as he did . If he had stopped to think how day after day she had managed to keep out of his sight while he hunted for her , he would have realized that there was little he could show her which she did not already know . But he did n't stop to think and proudly led her from place to place . And Mrs. Lightfoot wisely expressed delight with all she saw quite as if it were all new . Of course , all the little people of the Green Forest hurried to pay their respects to Mrs. Lightfoot and to tell Lightfoot how glad they felt for him . And they really did feel glad . You see , they all loved Lightfoot and they knew that now he would be happier than ever , and that there would be no danger of his leaving the Green Forest because of loneliness . The Green Forest would not be the same at all without Lightfoot the Deer . Lightfoot told Mrs. Lightfoot all about the terrible days of the hunting season and how glad he was that she had not been in the Green Forest then . He told her how the hunters with terrible guns had given him no rest and how he had had to swim the Big River to get away from the hounds .
`` I know , '' replied Mrs. XXXXX softly .
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