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community struggles to sustain themselves in the midst of high prices—to keep their heads above the high-water rates which have inva ded and are rapidly submerging everything about them. They retreat from point to point, parting with their movables for safety, until, unincumbered and homeless, they take refuge in the tree-tops and await the falling of the waters!