CHAPTER III: Lightfoot Tells How His Antlers Grew 

It is hard to believe what seems impossible. And yet what seems impossible to you may be a very commonplace matter to some one else. So it does not do to say that a thing cannot be 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 antlers growing, it would have been another matter. But he hadn't seen Lightfoot since the very last of winter, and then Lightfoot had worn just such handsome antlers as he now had. So Peter really couldn't be blamed for not being able to believe that those old ones had been lost and in their place new ones had grown in just the few months of spring and summer. 

But Peter didn't blame Lightfoot in the least, because he had told Peter that he didn't like to tell things to people who wouldn't believe what he told them when Peter had asked him about the rags hanging to his antlers. "I'm trying to believe it," he said, quite humbly. 

"It's all true," broke in another voice. 

Peter jumped and turned to find his big cousin, Jumper the Hare. Unseen and unheard, he had stolen up and had overheard what Peter and Lightfoot had said. 

"How do you know it is true?" snapped Peter a little crossly, for Jumper had startled him. 

"Because I saw Lightfoot's old antlers after they had fallen off, and I often saw Lightfoot while his new ones were growing," retorted Jumper.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who gave Peter a little scare?
2. Who was Peter startled by?
3. Who made Peter feel scared?
Q2:
1. What sort of animal was Jumper?
2. What was Jumper's species?
3. Tell us what kind of animal Jumper was.
Q3:
1. Was Jumper related to Peter?
2. Were Jumper and Peter family?
3. Was there a biological relationship between Jumper and Peter?
Q4:
1. How were Peter and Jumper related?
2. What was the relationship of Jumper to Peter?
3. How did Jumper have a biological relationship to Peter?
Q5:
1. Did Jumper overhear a conversation?
2. Was Jumper listening in on someone's conversation?
3. Did Jumper eavesdrop on a conversation?
Q6:
1. What did Lightfoot say to Peter that the latter didn't believe?
2. What did Peter have trouble believing Lightfoot on?
3. What subject did Peter feel that Lightfoot wasn't telling the truth about?
Q7:
1. When had Peter last seen Lightfoot?
2. When was the last time Peter had seen Lightfoot?
3. At what point in the year had Peter last been around Lightfoot?
Q8:
1. Did Peter want to believe Lightfoot?
2. Did Peter wish to take Lightfoot at his word?
3. Did Peter want to think that what Lightfoot was saying was true?
Q9:
1. What species was Lightfoot?
2. Lightfoot was what sort of animal?
3. Tell us the kind of animal that Lightfoot was.
Q10:
1. What was Jumper's opinion of Lightfoot's story?
2. What did Jumper have to say about Lightfoot's story?
3. What were Jumper's words regarding Lightfoot's story?
Q11:
1. How did Jumper know that Lightfoot's story was true?
2. What made Jumper believe Lightfoot's story?
3. What gave Lightfoot's story credibility to Jumper?
Q12:
1. How long did it take for Lightfoot to grow new antlers?
2. How long had it taken for Lightfoot's new antlers to come in?
3. How much time had passed since Lightfoot got new antlers growing in?
Q13:
1. What did Lightfoot have hanging from his antlers?
2. What hung from Lightfoot's antlers?
3. What adorned Lightfoot's antlers?
Q14:
1. What did Peter not blame Lightfoot for?
2. Why did Peter feel taht Lightfoot wasn't to blame?
3. What did Peter pardon Lightfoot for?
