Tucked away in The Speckled Hen Antiques impressive shop in Townsville , little Darwin unearthed the above battered 1941 Queensland School Reader with a cute title page illustration of a child riding a butterfly , which appears to be the work of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite , world renowned for her drawings of fairies, elves , frogs and children's illustrated books. Many of her drawings depicted fairies with gossamer and butterfly-like wings .
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Speckled Hen : Chooks and fairies dwell therein .
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