COTS

Dawn showed a very white-faced Subaltern sitting on the side of a sick man's cot, and a Doctor in the doorway using language unfit for publication.

"My dear," said Princess Mary, addressing her brother from beside the cot where she was standing, "better wait a bit...

The old man arose from the cot and moved about the room.

Kim had reeled to a room with a cot in it, and was dozing soddenly.

It came just as Rokoff was lifting her upon the cot. A noise at the tent door behind him brought his head quickly about and away from the girl.

I've got one nice large double room, and I could let you have a cot."

And from across the cot his sister wailed, "Don't, don't!" and, covering her face, sobbed afresh.

Madame Antoine's cot was at the far end of the village.

About night we landed at one of them little Missouri towns high up toward Iowa, and had supper at the tavern, and got a room upstairs with a cot and a double bed in it, but I dumped my bag under a deal table in the dark hall while we was moving along it to bed, single file, me last, and the landlord in the lead with a tallow candle.

In one corner was a huge bed, and across the room a smaller cot; a cupboard, a table, and two benches completed the furnishings.