Book excerpt: Excerpt from Through the Green Gate Someday you may go to Friendly Village. Of course, when you get there, you will want to see all old friends, Alice and Jerry, Bobby and Billy, and Paddy and all his pets. You will want to call on Mr. Carl, and say Hello to Mr. Andrews in his fruit store on River Street. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.