TANDEM DRIVING 



IT is said, but I must confess failure to trace 

 authority for the statement, that tandem driving 

 was invented as a convenient and sporting method 

 of taking the hunter to the meet. History has not 

 handed down to fame the name of the man who 

 first hit upon the idea of driving tandem ; it was 

 in vogue over a century ago, and at Cambridge 

 ranked as a grave offence : witness the following 

 edict dated 10th March 1807:— 



*We, the VICE-CHANCELLOR AND HeADS OF 



Colleges, do hereby order and decree that if any 

 person or persons in statu pupillari shall be found 

 driving any tandem and shall be duly convicted 

 thereof before the vice-chancellor, such person 

 or persons so offending shall for the first offence 

 be suspended fromltaking his degree for one whole 

 year, or be rusticated, according to the circum- 

 stances of the case; and for the second offence 

 be liable to such further punishment as it may 

 appear to deserve, or be expelled the university.' 



Extravagantly high gigs were much in favour 

 among the * bloods' of the day, and these were 



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