Mahomet's favourite white mule was Daldah. (See Fadda .)
To shoe one's mule.
To appropriate part of the money committed to one's trust. This is
a French locution-
“Ferrer la mule- i.e. I'action d'un domestique qui trompe son
maitre sur le prix réel des choses qu'il a achetées en son $$$. Elle
doit son origine an pretexte, facile a employer, de la depense faite
pour ferrer la mule. ” —Encyclopedic des Proverbes Franais.
“He had the keeping and disposall of the moneys, and yet shod not his
own mule.” —History of Francion (1655).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
