the Green Forest, stepping with the greatest care to avoid
snapping a stick underfoot, searching with keen eye every thicket
and likely hiding-place for a glimpse of Lightfoot, and studying
the ground for traces to show that Lightfoot had been there.



CHAPTER VII: The Merry Little Breezes Help Lightfoot

Could you have seen the hunter with the terrible gun and
Lightfoot the Deer that morning on which the hunting season
opened you might have thought that Lightfoot was hunting the
hunter instead of the hunter hunting Lightfoot. You see,
Lightfoot was behind the hunter instead of in front of him.
He was following the hunter, so as to keep track of him.
As long as he knew just where the hunter was, he felt
reasonably safe.

The Merry Little Breezes are Lightfoot's best friends. They
always bring to him all the different scents they find as they
wander through the Green Forest. And Lightfoot's delicate nose
is so wonderful that he can take these scents, even though they
be very faint, and tell just who or what has made them. So,
though he makes the best possible use of his big ears and his
beautiful eyes, he trusts more to his nose to warn him of danger.
For this reason, during the hunting season when he moves about,
he moves in the direction from which the Merry Little Breezes may
be blowing. He knows that they will bring to him warning of any
danger which may lie in that direction.