Mark smiled, “One must be quick to reload, once the Tiger realises that it is being shot at it is away like the wind. Although on one hunt the Tiger did not flee, but rather it ran at the shooter and leapt. There was a great commotion let me tell you, the Elephant was most put out by the Tiger landing on it and let everyone know.  The Mahout suddenly finding himself face to face with the Tiger let out such a screech and fell backwards off his Elephant.<br/>Poor old Lord Smithers got into a frightful muddle with his gun trying to load it as his loader had leapt over the back off the Elephant.”<br/><br/>He paused for dramatic effect, “If Major Cartwright had not put a bullet into the Tiger from his mount I think that the Tiger would have been hanging Lord Smithers head on his wall rather than the other way around.” He finished his little story and returned to his meal. The sexual undertones he quite well understood but feeling that was for the younger people refrained from joining in.<br/><br/>