Lightfoot the Deer

possible just because you cannot understand how it can be. Peter Rabbit wanted to believe what Lightfoot the Deer had just told him, but somehow he couldn't. If he had seen those

ieve that those old ones had been lost and in their place ne

ke to tell things to people who wouldn't believe what he told them when Peter had asked hi

e," broke in

per the Hare. Unseen and unheard, he had stolen up

snapped Peter a little crossly

ey had fallen off, and I often saw Lightfoot wh

u say it is true," declared Peter, who greatly admires his cous

n through them just as it does through our bodies. They were covered with a sort of skin with hairs on it like thin fur. The ends were not sharply pointed they now are, but were big and rounded, like knobs. They were not like antlers at all, and they made my head hot and were very uncomfortable. That is why I hid away. They grew very fast, so

ed flowing up in them, and as they became hard they were no longer tender. The skin which had covered them grew dry and split, and I rubbed it off on trees and bushes. The little rags you

handsome," whispered Peter to Jumper the Hare; "and did you ever hear of anything so wonderful as the

antlers on me, even though I were big as a man. You've always thought of Lightfoot as ti