560 NOTES ON TANDEM AND FOUR-IN-HAND DRIVING. 



not too fast, allowing the leaders to do an equal share of the 

 work ; it is then, and only then, that their traces should 

 be really tight. When their traces look slack on a level 

 road, they are in reality doing their full share of the work 

 — in fact, leaders invariably sweat and tire sooner than the 

 wheelers; so much so that on a long stage, in the olden 

 days, the horses were frequently reversed — leaders put in 

 the wheel — to rest the former. 



