This morning Elaine went with her firend Linda to Rutger's University in New Brunswick to help move Linda's son from his frat house to a different house. While Linda and Elaine were doing that, Gus and Trudy decided to go on the campus and take a look around. They were going to visit Professor Gnome, a distant cousin of Gus'.
Elaine and Linda dropped Gus and Trudy off in front of a vine covered cottage. Professor Gnome lived in the Oak Tree behind the cottage. Gus knocked on the door and Professor Gnome's housekeeper, Gretchen, escorted them in.
Gretchen asked them to sit down and she brought cakes and tea for them. Professor Gnome walked in and they had a delightful tea. Professor Gnome told them all kinds of fantastic stoires about his travels around the world. His specialty was "Gnomeology" - the study of gnomes throughout history and throughout the world.
He told them about the wild gnomes of Borneo and the very sedate gnomes of Frankfurt. he had high hopes of one day going to New Zealand to see if it was true about a race of gnomes living there--in the wilderness. Gus and Trudy said that they would love to accompany him on his next trip and it was agreed that they would be his assistants.
Gus noticed that the weather was starting to turn. So he thanked Professor Gnome for his kindness and he and Trudy flew home to their home in the orderly home on Bloomfield Avenue.
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