He arrived, extracted from his baggage a folding cot, sheets, two blankets, and a pillow, and quickly bedded down for the night.
The mother rounded up sufficient cots, sheets, blankets, turned the living room into a dormitory and got in an extra maid.
Red Cross volunteers readied a shelter with supplies such as cots and sheets, though it remained unused.
In another corner, next to a metal locker, there was a cot with white sheets and a scratchy wool blanket that smelled of banana peel.
7. Wamsutta's bedding set, sized for a camp cot, has a fitted sheet and a flat sheet sewn together at the foot and one pillowcase; $29.99 at Bed Bath & Beyond, (800) 462-3966, or www.bedbathandbeyond.com.
Peggy Schultz, a management consultant from Washington, brought Stilton cheese and garlic hummus, plus new flowered sheets for her cot.
They provided each of the hapless — and filthy — journalists with a cot, a mattress, a blanket, a sheet, a towel and a bar of soap, along with a tasty dinner of ugali (a polentalike starch) and goat.
Thirty emails later we are still waiting for the mattress and sheets for the mini cot, which we have only been able to use for storage.
IN Milton Resnick's living quarters, a spare cube built over a soaring, two-story studio space in a former synagogue on Eldridge Street in Manhattan, the monastic iron bed, as narrow as a child's cot, is unmade, a tangle of sheets at the headboard.
Put it in the cot for 10 minutes to warm the sheet.
