CHAPTER IX, 



TANDEM-DRIVING. 



BY LADY GEORGINA CURZON. 



WE are often told that a tandem is the most dangerous mode 

 of conveyance ever invented by the human mind. People say 

 that the driver has no possible command over the leader, and 

 that a tandem-cart can therefore be overturned with the greatest 

 ease ; another frequent objection is that the leader is of no use, 

 that he never does any work, and I have generally heard the 

 deficiencies and delinquencies of the unfortunate conveyance 

 summed up with, ' If you want to break your neck, go in a 

 tandem.' I quite admit that a great many of these criticisms 

 have a certain amount of truth about them, and that those 

 who speak thus, in such a slighting way of the tandem, have 



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