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animals will have to work hard in order to get 

 the load through, the whip will be of still 

 greater use and value, and the mastery of it 

 will be much rewarded. For example, in the 

 sandy bed of a river, I have known a not too 

 high-couraged leader to pull up, and turning- 

 half round look at me as much as to say, 

 '' You never expect me to pull through this 

 stuff, do you ? " but a sharp touch with the 

 whip, and as he straightened a cut on the other 

 side, often served to o-et him to work aoain. 

 All the use of the whip in a tandem in bad 

 ground should be quick, neat, and light. As 

 soon as you come to flogging it is only a 

 question of time when the team will stop. It 

 is better then to send a man to the leader's 

 head. It is always necessary and wise to 

 remember the weak point of a tandem, which 

 is this — if your leader will not work and w^ishes 

 to turn round, you cannot really prevent him. 

 Much must be trusted to the honour of the 

 leader. To paraphrase slightly a well-known 

 coaching saying, much that the four-in-hand 

 coachman can do by direct means the tandem 

 driver must achieve by artifice. 



It is therefore evident that the use of the 

 whip must be mastered to some extent before 

 a man can hope to drive tandem with safety 

 or comfort. To learn the use of the whip 



