Polycarp sounds funny *haha*

I really do NOT know why some garden dwarf is put there but my guess would be it is used as an analogy. I say so with this reason:

'If the grass grew too high for him to see the dahlias by the fence the landlord's wife would creep across the lawn on her knees and clip the blades to matchstick length with her garden shears'
I know garden dwafs can't move, but compare it to this sentence on Herr Johann Resch :
'Now he let other slaesmen do his work, while he conducted his business by telephone'
I really do think this knd of shows that both dwarf and owner don't do much,huh?

P.S. Darryl, they still have lots of Garden Dwarfs in the villages of Germany! They even have some in the cities!