Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.

During that time he had two more run-ins with the law. One involved the sale of stolen property. The other was for a series of hot checks.

Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah, Mom, you said this all yesterday.

Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.