WARNING-----Mischief at hand!

I am safely in my Florida beach house (rented of course), and have set up my whittling area on the porch.  Yesterday I completed a three inch Gnome.  This one was to be a demonstration piece for a class I may be teaching in a few weeks.

It's gone!  It's missing!  I've looked everywhere!

I thought about making a lot of copies and stapling them to telephone poles like they do when a dog goes missing.  But then I thought - Gnomes are known to be pranksters and mischievous.  Maybe, just maybe he's hiding or ran off.  

Oh well!  Where there's wood there's another Gnome just waiting to be set free.....And I got wood!