"Men are strange creatures! I think I"ll hunt one some day just to teach him a lesson," says Lightfoot the Deer to his new friend, Peter Rabbit. Lightfoot is glad of all the animal friends he meets in the Green Forest -- especially Paddy the Beaver, who saves him from harm. But what about these men? There"s that strange one -- the farmer. Should Lightfoot trust this man -- when a second one is stalking him with a terrible gun? Thornton Burgess"s tales of woodland and meadow have delighted readers young and old for nearly a century.