Mackenzie says it came true: one Rosehaugh Mackenzie married a woman from a music saloon in a southern city, against local opinion. A James Maclaren had been the measurer who set bounds for the foolish James. The Fletchers, who have goats on their arms, took over Rosehaugh when the Mackenzies, the deer, left. The Black Isle estate then passed to a son of an Avoch fisherman, Mr Jack, whose sons were educated by a Fletcher family aunt and rose as merchants.
The interpretation was written down after all of it had happened. The heraldic detail, goat for deer, is a good example of how a loose verse is tied to a later event.
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