About that time a lawyer was riding along the road on horseback, with a wallet containing a share of an estate worth $600, which he had secured for an old woman.
’Rasmus saw the traveler, saw the horse, saw the wallet.
The traveler saw no one. He was blind—drunk.
’Rasmus cut a stout bludgeon.
The traveler ambled on.
’Rasmus clasped the bludgeon.
The traveler continued to amble.