Pacific Northwest Gardening: Taming the wild garden part 2, 1 by

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You have to be careful using beer to catch slugs in a gnome garden. The young adolescent gnomes are particularly susceptible to alcohol. It's a bloody shame. These young gnomes were directed, in disgrace, to leave the gnome village and go to a neighboring village to live with other families. It seems harsh, but they will receive corrective training, work very hard, and then be very glad to return to their own village - hopefully reformed and productive citizens. As human beings begin to accept the ways of gnomes and to value them and their ways, this problem will be less prevalent in gnome society. During the dark times when people refuted the existence of gnomes, they lost their purpose in life and took to the drink. Gnome children had no future to look forward to. Fortunately, in my garden, each gnome family accepts responsibility for a certain piece of land - working it and protecting it in cooperation with the fairies. It's a good system.

Sorry, fairies do not allow their photo to be taken.