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Issue Details: First known date: 1904... 1904 The Origin of the Wattle
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When the waters of Lake Eyre recede the fairies were doomed to perish until King Oberon took pity and changed them into plants which still retained their golden hair.

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    y separately published work icon Fairy Tales From the Land of the Wattle Olga D. A. Ernst , Melbourne : McCarron, Bird , 1904 Z1327209 1904 selected work children's fiction children's A collection of fairy lore tales with Australian surroundings intended to be as stories told by a child to younger children. Melbourne : McCarron, Bird , 1904 pg. 11-14
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