114 RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



Curzon In her most excellent article on the 

 subject In the Badminton volume on Driving. 

 I speak with confidence, for I have had two 

 carts built to the measurements there laid down 

 and found them answer admirably. With 

 regard to the harness, I like It as light as 

 possible, but I prefer, In the country certainly, 

 on a tour, to have breechino- on the wheeler. 





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POSITION OF THE HANDS FOR DRIVING FOUR-IN-HAND 

 OR TANDEM. 



It Is on the whole more convenient to pass the 

 leader's reins through the ear-rings of the 

 wheeler than to have them through the terrets 

 often affixed to the sides of the wheelers' heads. 

 Lead reins so arranged have a greater tendency 

 to worry the wheelers, the objection to them 

 being precisely the same as to head-terrets for 

 the wheelers In a team. I prefer to attach the 

 leader by a bar, but If long traces are pre- 



