Crossword-Solution: SUBROSA 7 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

First came Belle Lorrigan, walking backward, a shot-loaded quirt raised admonishingly to the chin of Subrosa who walked stiff-legged and reluctant, his white-lashed, blue eyes rolling fearsomely, his nostrils belling in loud snorts of protest.

Afraid to lunge forward, hating to walk circumspectly, eager for the race yet dreading the discipline of rein and whip, Subrosa yielded perforce to the inevitable.

You settle down, now, and act human, or--" Subrosa kicked at the trace and flipped it up so that it struck him smartly on the rump.

Subrosa sat down violently, and Belle straightway kicked him in the paunch by way of hinting that she preferred him standing.

Then they had it out, rampaging all over the round-pole corral until Belle, breathing a bit fast but sparkly-eyed and victorious, led Subrosa through the gate and up to the post where she snubbed him fast.