FOUR-IN-HAND DRIVING 



otherwise to possess slight merit. It presents all 

 the difficulties and enhances all the dangers attend- 

 ant upon driving four, and yet has little of the 

 interest attaching to that undertaking. Probably 

 no man more surely tempts fate than he who 

 thus " takes the air,'* and may his temerity do 

 him that much good. Two four-in-hand leaders 

 rarely decide upon the same mode of procedure 

 if disposed to be light-hearted, but help keep 

 each other straight. Your tandem advance guard, 

 however, is open for any kind of deviltry. How 

 on earth they ever do manage to lead properly is 

 a wonder, and the feel of the traces as they hang 

 must in a way act as a guide as to where the wheeler 

 is, and which way he means to go, for half the 

 time the lead reins are slack. That was a wise 

 nagsman Indeed, who, asked as he drove out of 

 the archway which way he was going, up or down, 

 replied : " Blowed if I know till I get into the 

 street ; " and that 's the worst of tandem driving, 

 one " can't pretty much always tell " what will 

 befall the next moment. If tandems must be 

 driven it is to be hoped that the fad will change 

 and allow breechings to be worn on wheel harness. 

 To ask a poor brute to hold back by his tail and 

 withers a thousand-pound cart carrying possibly 



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