human
I am afraid those hounds drove him out where a hunter could get a shot and kill him, or else that they tired him out and killed him themselves, thought Sammy.
gpt
If he were alive, somebody certainly would have seen him and nobody has, since the day those hounds chased him. I declare, I have quite lost my appetite worrying about him. If Lightfoot is dead, and I am almost sure he is, the Green Forest will never seem the same.