Madison Rabbit in "An Unpleasant Surprise"

"I'll just keep out of sight until my wounds are healed, and then we'll see who owns the Old Pasture!" thought Ryder.
No sooner had this thought popped into his head than he received a surprise, such an unpleasant surprise! It was three heavy thumps right behind him. Ryder knew what that meant. Of course he knew. It meant that he must run or fight. It meant that he had been so busy thinking about how smart he was going to be that he had forgotten to cover his own tracks, and so the maker of the big tracks he had followed had found him out.