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Updated: June 4, 2025
People may think these things don't come suddenly outside of books, but they do oh, they do!" And, worn out by the exertions of the day, Polly curled herself in a knot and prepared to sleep. Juan Baptisto Pachuca had not availed himself of the shakedown made for him by Mrs. Van Zandt's blankets. He had put out his light because he wanted to think and he preferred thinking by moonlight.
"We can't go to prison for it, can we, mister?" asked Ada suddenly, after a pause. "No," I said; "there's nothing dishonest in what I propose." "Oh, she didn't so much mean that," said Thomas, thoughtfully. They gave me a shakedown for the night in the cargo. Just before turning in, I said casually, "If anyone except me cashed the cheques by mistake, he'd go to prison quick."
'Well, then, come home to us till you can turn yourself round, continued Mrs Blossom heartily; 'me and Mr George have talked it over, and he says, "When little Meg's father do come, let 'em all come here: Posy, and the little 'uns, and all. You'll have Posy and the little 'uns in your room, and I'll have him in mine. We'll give him some sort o' a shakedown, and sailors don't use to lie soft."
Here the air was very fragrant and balmy, and a kind of comfortable "shakedown" of mattresses, covered with coloured blankets, had been laid for me in a corner. I lay down as soon as the sound of the young women's merriment died out in the distance, and after the extraordinary events of the night, I was soon sleeping as soundly as if I had been in my father's house at Hackney Wick.
He gripped me tenderly, took me to his bosom as it were, gave me one push, and I was there. He tarried not. What right had he to listen to what I in secret would say of the horrid keeper and his twice horrid shakedown inn? He passed out swiftly into outer darkness, uttering a groan I rudely interpreted as, "That or nothing, that or nothing."
"Don't you know anyone in the house who'll give you a shakedown?" "No, sir." "They only moved in last week," said the midwife. "They don't know nobody yet." Chandler hesitated a moment awkwardly, then he went up to the man and said: "I'm very sorry this has happened." He held out his hand and the man, with an instinctive glance at his own to see if it was clean, shook it. "Thank you, sir."
A rude clapboard table did duty as a desk, a fact made plain by a horn ink-well, a notary's seal, and a rack with a half-dozen quill pens. Above the desk was a shelf of books in worn calf bindings, and before it a rickety chair. A shakedown bed in one corner of the room was tastefully screened from the public gaze by a tattered quilt. "Boy, don't be afraid.
I've got a free hand, and we're going to run this the way we would on Earth. Your job is to protect the citizens here and that means everyone not breaking the laws whether you feel like it or not. No graft. The first man making a shakedown will get the same treatment we're going to use on the Stonewall boys. You'll get double pay here, and you can live on it!"
At night the chief and his daughter retired to their wigwams, while the old trapper accepted a shakedown in the corner of our hut. He smiled when Uncle Mark offered him a bed. "For many a long year I have not slept in one," he answered; "and I possibly may never again put my head on a pillow softer than my saddle or a pack of skins."
"Captain Warren here," she said, "was asking where you all found sleeping quarters." Mrs. Moriarty smiled broadly. "Sure, 'tis aisy," she explained. "When the ould man is laid up we're all happy to be a bit uncomfortable. Not that we are, neither. You see, sor, me and Nora and Rosy sleep in the other bed; and Dinnie has a bit of a shakedown in the parlor; and Honora is in the kitchen; and "
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