CHAPTER XI 



FOUR-IN-HAND DRIVING 



THERE is no doubt that drivlncr a tandem 

 is easier than driving a team. In the 

 first place, unless the coachman has large and 

 powerful hands, he will find the weight of the 

 four horses in itself a serious difficulty. The 

 near wheeler's rein in particular is apt to slip 

 when the hand gets tired, especially if the 

 horse in question should lean on the driver's 

 hand at all heavily. It would be a great 

 mistake for a fairly expert tandem-driver to 

 imagine that he could at once climb up on to 

 the box of a coach and drive away. But, 

 although the man who has learned to drive 

 tandem has not by any means made himself a 

 coachman thereby, yet he has gone some way 

 along the road to perfection in that art. Such 

 an one can hold his reins in the right way, has 

 learned to keep his hand quiet and to drive as 



