Twenty dollars will buy a pony here.

Then you will want a critter each to ride.

We are not going to get first-rate ones, for if the Indians come on us it is fighting that we shall have to do, not riding.

Among those mountains no shod horse of the plains has a chance with those Indian ponies, which can climb like goats and go at a gallop along places where a horse from the plains wouldn't dare move.
Then you will want rifles and six-shooters.

That is about all; I am afraid our stock of money will hardly run to it, and I think we had better work for a while in one of the diggings to make up what we shall want." "We have twenty pounds between us," Dick said, "and we can draw on our fathers for twenty-five pounds each.