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The wedding successfully past, communication with the outside world re-established and the floodwaters entirely gone, Three Rivers resumed its full and busy routine.
The devastation caused by the flood gave Mazere and his men a great deal of extra work. Since it turned out, in fact, that most of the maize crop had been washed out by the roots or had rotted, a late crop of potatoes and arrowroot was put in to compensate for the loss. Fortunately the new orchard on the higher slopes had not been badly affected, and the women speedily set to to peel and dry the fruit that could be saved, and tie it in bags of strong, unbleached calico in which it swung from the beams of the pantry. There was half a ton of fruit if there was a pound. Immense quantities of jam and pickles were set on great tables, the rough legs of which were set in vessels of water against marauding ants.