She tried to get a mattress out of one of the fallen houses, but was unable to do so.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
In the morning when Lucille awoke, she found the nurse alone, and heard that the doctor lay on a straw mattress in the tap-room to be near at hand in case of need.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
We had a farewell evening at the Club, and in the night he got up for soda water, the bottle burst and cut his hands, then he cut his feet on the broken glass going to the bathroom to bandage his hands, got into bed, and the bandages came off in the night, and in the morning he was found in a faint-therefore the blood on the mattress.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch