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Beatrix Potter's `Peter Rabbit' turns 100.(The Dallas Morning News)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20020129
Author:Johnson, Jean Nash

"Now my dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden."

It's the Year of the Rabbit. Beatrix Potter's Peter, one of the most famous and mischievous of them all, turns 100.

"It's hard to believe he's been around that long. I thought those books were for my generation," says 33-year-old Lynette Zilles, a Dallas software analyst. That reaction to the literary milestone points out the staying power of Potter's beloved tales.

Potter, whose love for nature and animals was legendary, wrote ...

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