"That stranger is nearly as big as Lightfoot, but it is very plain that he doesn't want to fight," thought Sammy. "He must be a coward."
Now the truth is, the stranger was not a coward. He was ready and willing to fight if he had to, but if he could avoid fighting he meant to. You see, big as he was, he wasn't quite so big as Lightfoot, and he knew it. He had seen Lightfoot's big footprints, and from[pg 182] their size he knew that Lightfoot must be bigger and heavier than he. Then, too, he knew that he really had no right to be there in the Green Forest. That was Lightfoot's home and so he was an intruder. He knew that Lightfoot would feel this way about it and that this would make him fight all the harder. So the big stranger wanted to avoid a fight if possible. But he wanted still more to find that beautiful young visitor with the dainty feet for whom Lightfoot had been looking. He wanted to find her just as Lightfoot wanted to find her, and he hoped that if he did find her, he could take her away with him back to the Great Mountain. If he had to, he would[pg 183] fight for her, but until he had to he would keep out of the fight. So he dodged2 Lightfoot and at the same time looked for the beautiful stranger.
All this Sammy Jay guessed, and after a while he grew tired of following Lightfoot for nothing. "I'll have to take a hand in this thing myself," muttered Sammy. "At this rate, Lightfoot never will find that big stranger!"
So Sammy stopped following Lightfoot and began to search through the Green Forest for the big stranger. It didn't take very long to find him. He was over near the pond of Paddy the Beaver3. As soon as he saw him, Sammy began to scream at the top of his[pg 184] lungs. At once he heard the sound of snapping twigs4 at the top of a little ridge5 back of Paddy's pond and knew that Lightfoot had heard and understood.
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1 pointed | |
adj.尖的,直截了当的 | |
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v.闪躲( dodge的过去式和过去分词 );回避 | |
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n.海狸,河狸 | |
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细枝,嫩枝( twig的名词复数 ) | |
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n.山脊;鼻梁;分水岭 | |
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