CHAPTER VI

A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK

There was a game of hide and seek that Danny Meadow Mouse once played with Buster Bear. It was a very dreadful game for Danny. But hard as it was for Danny, it didn't begin to be as hard as the game Lightfoot the Deer was playing with the hunter in the Green Forest.

In the case of Buster Bear and Danny, the latter had simply to keep out of reach of Buster. As long as Buster didn't get his great paws on Danny, the latter was safe. Then, too, Danny is a very small person. He is so small that he can hide under two or three leaves. Wherever he is, he is pretty sure to find a hiding-place of some sort. His small size gives him advantages in a game of hide and seek. It certainly does. But Lightfoot the Deer is big. He is one of the largest of the people who live in the Green Forest. Being so big, it is not easy to hide.

Moreover, a hunter with a terrible gun does not have to get close in order to kill. Lightfoot knew all this as he waited for the coming of the hunter of whom Sammy Jay had warned him. He had learned many lessons in the hunting season of the year before and he remembered every one of them. He knew that to forget even one of them might cost him his life. So, standing motionless behind a tangle of fallen trees, Lightfoot listened and watched.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. Who can kill from a distance?
2. With what?
3. Is one of the animals aware of this?
4. WHo?
5. What kind of animal is he?
6. Who told him the gunman will arrive?
7. What is the rodent's name?
8. Is he playing with someone?
9. With whom?
10. What kind of animal is he?
11. What game are they playing?
12. How can Danny win?
13. Is Danny big?
14. How little is he?
15. Can he conceal himself easily?
16. What is sufficient to conceal him?
17. Where do these beasts live?
18. Which one?
19. Are there large animals there?
20. Please name one.
1. a hunter
2. a gun
3. yes
4. Lightfoo
5. Deer
6. Sammy Jay .
7. Danny
8. yes
9. Buster
10. bear.
11. hide and seek
12. k eep out of busters reach
13. No
14. very small
15. yes
16. two or three leaves.
17. Forest
18. the Green Forest
19. yes
20. Lightfoot