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length, and the leader is much more easily put 

 to or detached. 



Now for a few practical hints as to driving 

 tandem. First of all let us clear the way by 

 removing some fallacies which are current on 

 the subject. I have heard it said often enough 

 that to drive tandem is harder than to drive a 

 team, and people have even gone further and 

 deduced from this the conclusion that if you 

 can do one, you can do the other. There 

 never was a greater piece of self-deception. 

 Assuming for a moment that your leader will 

 go straight, tandem is by far the easiest form 

 of coachmanship, and if fairly well done, the 

 safest. Two horses driven as a pair are far 

 more likely to make up their minds to- 

 gether to run away, than two horses tandem 

 fashion. I have three times been run away 

 w^ith in a tandem, and have each time been 

 able to stop the horses by playing them off 

 one against the other, as it were. But let us 

 begin at the beginning and consider what sort 

 of cart is best for a tandem. In the first place 

 it should not be too light, for horses go better 

 if they have something to draw, and a tandem 

 cart should be able to balance well and carry 

 four people, and if necessary some luggage. 

 No better measurements for a tandem cart can 

 be found than those given by Lady Georgiana 



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