TANDEM DRIVING 121 



In a tandem. Then if you want your team 

 to go well and look well keep your hands still, 

 for when once vou have the team straio^ht the 

 reins should need little or no chanorinof. A 

 tandem team can be turned with the slightest 

 movement of the wrist, for when once the 

 horses are going it is the very lightest and 

 handiest of teams. Half the trouble and 

 embarrassment in driving comes from pulling 

 too hard, and in drivino- tandem it is well to 

 recollect how slight a touch is needed. 

 W^omen, few if any of whom have the strength 

 requisite to drive four horses, can and do drive 

 a tandem beautifully. And it is most delightful 

 to drive a free-going tandem, with horses in 

 a straio-ht line trottins: out freelv, their hoofs 

 rattling gaily on the road. 



As you glance over your team before 

 starting see that everything is in its place, 

 the back - band is sufficiently loose, and the 

 cart so balanced that the wheeler trots com- 

 fortably ; the tongues of the buckles standing 

 up from time to time. A glance shows you 

 that the wheeler is drawing from his traces 

 and not from the shafts, while the leader is 

 just barely carrying his bar. Then as you 

 come to a rise in the ground the thong flies 

 lightly off the crop, touching the leader under 

 the bar and making him spring forward into 



