More on House Building
And Family Life of Gnomes
The chimney is build with the help
of a Woodpecker, this also serves as an airvent.
Moles are
good friends of the gnome also, 
digging
holes vertically, meters deep, under the future
toilet. If, every time after use, dried leaves are
thrown down the hole, the sewage need not be removed
and in time may produce nourishment for the tree. In
former times, the wall of the vertical tunnel was
lined with woven twigs to prevent its collapsing.
Today, round piping sections of baked clay are used.
In a corner of the boot room the
mole digs a second vertical tunnel. This well will
connect to a spring, pure subsoil water, or an
underground stream. The gnome then builds a stone
wall around the well opening. Gnomes make no cement
but sometimes get it from men in exchange for
something else. A mixture of mud, ash, and cow dung
is generally used to cement stones together. The wall
of the tunnel are lined with earthenware pipe
sections to prevent crumbing and pollution. The
construction of underground tunnels is one of the
most time-consuming occupations of the gnome builder.
The finished house 
look soon for this
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