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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Frederick Warne, 1902) is her most famous and best-loved tale.  \r\n\r\nFunded partly by the financial success of the first of her little books, Potter began to buy a number of working farms within the Lake District. With the prospect of war looming she was strongly against the Liberal government's proposal that farm horses may be subject to conscription if conflict arose. Potter relied on one horse for ploughing her fields at her personal property of Hill Top farm. Edmund Evans Ltd. printed over 1000 of the leaflets 'A shortage of horses'  for Potter and she sent them out to contacts within the farming industry shortly after the government's re-election. The 1910 election and its immediate aftermath saw Beatrix’s first and final application of her illustrative talents within the realm of national politics. 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