CHAPTER X 



TANDEM DRIVING 



THE tandem is the poor man's team, and 

 is somewhat neglected by many who 

 might obtain a great deal of amusement from 

 it. But driving tandem is not only an amuse- 

 ment, for it is an excellent and economical 

 method of traversing bad roads for long- 

 distances. On this point I may claim to speak 

 with some certainty, having driven a tandem 

 for somethino- like eio^hteen hundred to two 

 thousand miles in a year, for three consecutive 

 years, over some of the worst roads on our 

 Indian frontier. In fact, for the whole of the 

 cold weather and a considerable portion of the 

 hot season too, I was always driving. It is 

 needless to say that this was excellent practice. 

 In fact it is in my opinion impossible to learn 

 to drive well until you have had some experience 

 of driving journeys. In the old days, the 



