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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

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Beatrix Potter
Age: 77 †
Born: 1866
Born: July 28
Died: 1943
Died: December 22
Author
Botanist
Illustrator
Mycologist
Novelist
Painter
Scientific Illustrator
Writer
Helen Beatrix Potter Heelis
Helen Beatrix Potter
Woman
House
Littles
Mouse
Little
Shoe
Think
Mice
Thinking
Surely
Shoes
Lived

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