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Lightfoot the Deer

by Burgess Thornton Waldo

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Author: Burgess Thornton Waldo

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Once upon a time there lived Lightfoot the Deer. He was handsome and cute and had a lot of friends at Home – in the Green forest. Everything was wonderful… but then autumn came and with it came the invaders – creatures on two legs with things that spat fire – hunters!.. Will Lightfoot the Deer be able to escape?.. How horrible!.. But don’t be afraid, his friends in the Green forest will help him. And when danger over blows, strange, foreign deer come to the forest. Why are they here? And what will Lightfoot the Deer do?..

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...Spirit of Fear searches out the little people of theGreen Meadows and the Green Forest. It will not let them sleep. It will not let them eat in peace. It drives them to seeknew hiding-places and then drives them out of those. It keepsthem ever ready to fly or run at the slightest sound. Peter Rabbit was thinking of this as he sat at the edge of thedear Old Briar-patch, looking over to the Green Forest. The GreenForest was no longer just green; it was of many colors, for OldMother Nature had set Jack Frost to painting the leaves of themaple-trees and the beech-trees, and the birch-trees and thepoplar-trees and the chestnut-trees, and he had done his work well. Very, very lovely were the reds and yellows and browns againstthe dark green of the pines and the spruces and the hemlocks. The Purple Hills were more softly purple than at any other seasonof the year. It was all very, very beautiful. But Peter had no thought for the beauty of it all, for the Spiritof Fear had visited even the...