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91Èȱ¬ to Osgood MacKenzie, author of A Hundred Years In The Highlands, the Inverewe estate included Loch Fionn and was the one true love of MacKenzie’s life. He married his wife for her money and she later divorced him, leaving him free to do what he enjoyed most: shoot things. The estate was available for hire for shooting, and MacKenzie happily performed himself a task that many other lairds would have left to the gamekeepers – vermin control. At the head of the list of animals that MacKenzie considered vermin was the eagle - ‘when you see seven in the air at once, it is time to thin them out’ - and he killed them in any way he could. They were vermin after all, so sporting strictures didn’t apply. Strychnine, he said, was a wonderfully handy drug ...