Show e F CALL HIM RUBBER HORSE Dumbarton Does Several Little Contortionist Con Stunts The rubber horse Is the sobriquet given by the members of No 1 truck company Harrison street between Fayette and Baltimore streets to Dumbarton Dumbarton Dum Dum- barton the great gray gelding that helps to pull their apparatus to fires says the Baltimore News The rubber horse has the peculiar faculty of being being be be- ing able to scratch himself exactly as asa asa asa a cat sometimes does in front in-front front of a fire When he is a little lUtle tired or feels that his muscles need relaxing Dumbarton stretches his front legs legs directly in front of Mm bending down on them until they are almost flat fiat on the ground and extended In front In-front front of him while his back legs and hindquarters appear from his position to be lifted upward The first time that Dumbarton performed performed performed per per- formed this contortion was on the street while he and his wagon mate were were waiting for their friends to extinguish extinguish extinguish ex ex- a blaze blaz The position was so unusual for a horse to take that the firemen around the truck wagon thought that the animal had a fit of some kind and rushed forward to raise him up But Dumbarton with a twinkle twinkle twinkle twin twin- kle in his eye seemed to say I was only doing a little lUtle contortionist stunt for you and slowly regained his feet Sometimes Dumbarton performs his contortionist act in his stall but he generally does it while he Is standing on the street and when he elects to perform a crowd always gathers around the rubber horse to see him stretch like Jike a cat j |