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SHORT TAKES : Beatrix Potter Drawings Found

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<i> From Times Staff and Wire Service Reports</i>

Three watercolor drawings by children’s writer Beatrix Potter have been discovered in a Gloucestershire farm house and will be offered at auction Dec. 14. The 1896 pictures of Cecily Parsley the Rabbit, a character in her Peter Rabbit books, have lain undiscovered in a picture album once owned by the writer, auctioneer Simon Bruton said. Potter died in 1943.

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