ri8 RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



obstacle in capital style. But in the excitement 

 of the moment I failed to bring back the lash 

 to my hand — it was in the early clays — and it 

 flew back, wound round the neck of my syce 

 who was sitting- behind, at the very moment 

 when the cart bounded up into the air and shot 

 the man out. The effect was to break a new 

 whip, far away from all means of having it 

 mended, and very hard work it is to drive a 

 tandem one hundred and fifty miles without 

 a whip. Then I learned to realise how im- 

 portant a part in tandem-driving the whip 

 plays, far more than in any other kind of 

 driving. The tandem coachman's whip, then, 

 must be always ready. 



Over smooth or level roads the leader should 

 do little or no work. It is a fault of young 

 drivers that they allow the leader to pull 

 the whole affair ; this should never be. Con- 

 sequently when the leader is wanted to help he 

 will require a reminder with the whip. This 

 must be quickly and lightly done with a sure 

 hand so as not to disturb the wheeler, still less 

 to hit him by mistake. Then after a time 

 wheelers grow cunning and hang back to let 

 the leader do more than his share, and many 

 wheelers require reminders from time to time. 

 Of course in long journeys over bad roads such 

 as those I have described above when both 



