1.   It contained two narrow iron bedsteads furnished with dingy bed-linen and grey army blankets.

2.   Window wide open, no curtains and a narrow iron bedstead that looked no more comfortable than the one he had himself.

3.   Cartoonish spires of hand-packed muck rise ludicrously over prim New England gables while iron bedsteads stand as gates in front of auto-fender archways.

4.   Its furnishings included a hand-painted armoire and bureau with pretty latticework doors and a four-poster iron bedstead dressed in crisp white linens.