Over the Gate Author:Miss Read In Over the Gate Miss Read takes us again to her beloved Fairacre and share with us Mrs. Pringle's tyranny, the school-children's exuberance, and the fellowship of old and new friends in the village. As one episode leads into another we settle down to the neighborly village atmosphere. As readers of her eairlier books know, Miss Read offers a sp... more »ecial country always vernal and a climate always salubrious. Some of these country tales tell of happenings long ago, and some of things which occured only yesterday, but they are all part and parcel of Fairacre and its people, and from such stories the very stuff of village history is made.« less