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In spite of continuing rain, the floodwaters were rapidly running away into the Murrumbidgee. By Friday's dawn the gardener's cottage was visible as far as the window panes and, between the homestead and the river, tree tops were beginning to reappear.
The young men were kept out of mischief that morning by Charlotte's enlisting their aid in saving some of the fruit, which the rain and humid atmosphere was ripening abnormally fast. Encased in oilskins and top boots they gathered raspberries and gooseberries, figs and mulberries from the bushes and trees about the house. But in the new orchard on the slope the fruit was already beginning to spoil and housekeepers were alarmed lest their stores of jams and pickles and dried fruit be short next winter.