There, in one corner, is a little cot bed, with a single pillow, showing at once a privileged member of the family; near its head an ancient wash-stand and a tin wash-basin, and by its side a pail of water, with a tin dipper reposing quietly on its surface.

At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin' noise and glee.

There daily I wander as noon rises high, My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye.

Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot where my Mary resides!

CHAPTER 6 The bed on which Bull Hunter reposed his bulk that night was not the cot to which he was shown by his host.

One glance at the spindling wooden legs of the canvas-bottomed cot was enough for Bull, and having wrapped himself in the covers he lay down on the floor and was instantly asleep.

The shepherd-swain that, 'midst his country-cot, Deludes his broken slumbers by his toil, Thinks lordship sweet, where care with lordship dwells.

Wal, ain't this luck, now?" gasped Joe, as gratefully as if that hospital-cot was a bed of roses.

It was pleasant to see his comrades gather round him with such hearty adieus that his one hand must have tingled; to hear the good wishes and the thanks called after him by pale creatures in their beds; and to find tears in many eyes beside my own when he was gone, and nothing was left of him but the empty cot, the old gray wrapper, and the name upon the wall.

I made Madame de la R a thousand apologies, which she received with perfect kindness, and the charming woman profited by the incident to go and caress a pretty little girl of two years old who was sleeping at the end of the room in her cot, and the child whom she kissed caused her to forgive the refugee who had awakened her.

I looked at that cot, these two handsome, happy young people, and at myself, my disordered hair and clothes, my boots covered with mud, gloomy thoughts in my mind, and I felt like an owl in a nest of nightingales.

Adjoining the library, a room with no direct communication with the court by means of either door, or window, was a small and retired apartment containing a cot-bed, to which the captain was accustomed to retire in the cases of indisposition, when Mrs. Willoughby wished to have either of her daughters with herself, on their account, or on her own.

" Thinking of sleep reminded Miss Wimple that she had a pious task to perform before she could betake her to her sweet little cot.

A cot bed is at once convenient and inexpensive, and can be readily folded and put out of sight in the daytime.

It was a small, bare, whitewashed room, with a narrow cot, a washstand, a bureau, and two extraordinary chairsa huge one that rocked on damaged springs, enclosed in plaited leather like the case of an accordion, and one that had been a rocker, but stood unevenly on its diminished legs.

A similar lyric, in the story called The Sisters, might have come straight from the pen which has given us "Mine be a cot beside a hill," and is not so wholly irrelevant to its context as the one just cited.

His garden well loaded with store, His cot by the side of the green, Where woodbines crept over the door.

Without a shilling in his purse, Or cot to call his own, Poor Thomas grew from bad to worse, And harden'd as a stone.

Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot.

Can silent glens have charms for thee, The lowly cot and russet gown? No longer drest in silken sheen, No longer deck'd with jewels rare, Say, can'st thou quit each courtly scene, Where thou wert fairest of the fair?

Sennit even took possession of my state-room, in which he ordered his own cot to be swung, and from which he coolly directed my mattress to be removed.

As for you"turning upon the old tutor"you shall be put away under lock and key until I can devise some punishment severe enough to fit your case!" That night Kalora slept on a hard and narrow cot in a bare apartment adjoining her sister's gorgeous boudoirquite a change from the suite overlooking the avenue.

"Atter two er th'ee hund'ed er meat had be'n stole', Mars Walker call all de niggers up one ebenin', en tol' 'em dat de fus' nigger he cot stealin' bacon on dat plantation would git sump'n fer ter 'member it by long ez he lib'.

CO-SKEE-SEE-CO-COT, PSEUD. SEE Linderman, Frank B. COATSWORTH, ELIZABETH.

That day Berkley lunched in imagination only, seriously inclined to exchange his present board and lodgings for a dish of glory and a cot in barracks.

There it is the term in every-day use for any rough bedstead, such as the natives sleep on and call a khat.

The average Englishman cannot aspirate a K, and never pronounces the Indian A aright unless it is followed by an R, so khat becomes "cot" by a process of which there are many illustrations.

The chief forms of Horus given in the texts are: (1) HERU-UR (Aroueris), (2) HERU-MERTI, (3) HERU-NUB, (4) HERU-KHENT-KHAT, (5) HERU-KHENT-AN-MAA, (6) HERU-KHUTI, (7) HERU-SAM-TAUI, (8) HERU-HEKENNU, (9) HERU-BEHUTET.

The physical body of a man was called KHAT, a word which indicates something in which decay is inherent; it was this which was buried in the tomb after mummification, and its preservation from destruction of every kind was the object of all amulets, magical ceremonies, prayers, and formulae, from the earliest to the latest times.

On the tray stood also a small cup having no handle; a dish of dates; a few wafers made of the Arabian cereal called temmin; and a little bowl of khat leaves.

"M'almé, al khat aja" (the khat has come), said Rrisa.

"M'almé, al khat aja" (the khat has come), said Rrisa.

When the simple meal was ended, he plucked a little sprig of leaves from the khat plant in the bowl, and thrust them into his mouth.

This khat, gathered in the mountains back of Hodeida, on the Red Sea not far from Bab el Mandeb, had been preserved by a process known to only a few Coast Arabs.

The use of khat, his once-a-day joy and comfort, he had learned more than fifteen years before, on one of his exploring tours in Yemen.

Both language and the use of khat had come to him from contact with only the fringes of the country; and both had contributed to his vast, unsatisfied longing to know what lay beyond the forbidden zones that walled this land away from all the world.

Wherever he had gone, whatever perils, hardships, and adventures had been his in many years of wandering up and down the world, khat, the wondrous, had always gone with him.

Even a copper bowl of khat, the "flower of paradise," was awaiting him.

Idly he broke off a leaf of the khat, and nibbled at it.

The Master, likewise muffled, had refused all proffers of tobacco and had contented himself with a few khat leaves.

But you will perhaps pardon me if I nibble two or three of these khat leaves.

You yourself, from your experience in Oriental countries, know the value of khat.

As for the Master, from time to time he slipped a khat leaf into his mouth, and remained gravely pondering.

The Master, however, only chewed khat leaves; and as for "Captain Alden," she toiled with no stimulant.

THE ORDEAL OF RRISA Alone in his cabin with the waterspout of massive gold and with the sacred Black Stone, the Master sat down in front of the table where they had been laid, took a few leaves of khat, and with profound attention began to study the treasures his bold coup had so successfully delivered into his hands.

He now returned to his cabin, locked himself in andpondering over a few khat leavespassed the remainder of the afternoon sunk in deep abstraction.

The Master requested khat leaves, which were presently brought himdeliciously green and freshin a copper bowl.

Contemplatively the Master chewed a khat leaf, then smiled a very little, and asked: "Is it permitted to tell thee that this gold, of which thou hast carved thy citythis gold which to thee is as stones and earth to the people of Feringistanhath great value with us?"

The Master started, peered at Bara Miyan and forgot to chew his soothing khat leaves.