bell-mare

The little bell-mare, which was a _cayuse_ (Indian) horse, was offered for my use, and an old Spanish wooden saddle placed upon her back.

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

With a band of horses a bell-mare (madrina) is sometimes used.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

We had a farm and logging-claim on the outskirts of town which afforded a good farewell bite of grass, and at night I would turn loose twenty to forty mules and their beloved bell-mare to feed and fight mosquitoes.

A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921

So their propagandists came to our shores and started societies looking toward the establishment of brotherly love, and thus was born the shibboleth of universal peace, with Uncle Sam heading the parade like an old bell-mare in a pack train.

The Pride of Palomar 1918

The greater part, however, stayed close to the bell-mare.

Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

The watered mules had to do just so much kicking, so much braying at the young moon; had to be assured just so often, through their queer communications, that the bell-mare was still in the land of picket-line -- before nose-bags were fastened.

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

Thirty mountain-mules, under packs one-third their own weight, and through the pressure of a Luzon day; dry, empty, caked with sweat-salt -- yet there were not a few of those gritty beasts that went into the air squealing, and launched a hind-foot at the nearest rib or the nearest star, or pressed close to muzzle the bell-mare -- after the restoring roll.

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

It was just a soaked carabao rising from his deep wallow in the stream, but that she-devil, the gray bell-mare, tried to climb the cliffs about it.

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

If they can but muzzle the flanks of the bell-mare once in twenty-four hours, often stopping a jolt from the heels of this temperamental monster -- the mules appear morally refreshed for any fate.

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

I had before this noticed the curious fact that with a large number of mules a bell-mare is necessary, which the mules follow precisely as colts would.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903