The ravages of time and the weight of many inmates have demoralized it out of all semblance of a bedtick.
He held the candle over the bunk and his eyes swiftly searched every inch of the surface of the bedtick.
Quickly I snatch my writing material from the womb of the bedtick.
The remains of a bedtick moldered on the slats, its grass stuffing given over to the nests of the birds and rodents.
In an old stockin'-fut under my bedtick, where you can bet no man on earth ever laid eyes on it, or ever will!