CHAPTER IV.
"GIVE UP THAT HORSE, OR DIE!" Leaving the livery-stable, the young Texan went directly to the German restaurant, and asked for Willie Pond.
He was shown up to the room, recently engaged by the traveler, and found him engaged in cleaning a pair of fine, silver mounted Remington revolvers.
"Getting ready, I see," said the Texan.

"I have bought you a horse--the best in this whole section; I gave three hundred dollars.

There is your change." "Keep the two hundred to buy stores with for our trip," said Pond.
"No need of it I've laid in all the stores we need.

You can buy yourself a couple of blankets and an India-rubber for wet weather.

A couple of tin cans of pepper and salt is all that I lay in when I'm going to rough it on the plains.