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Bar071~Meeting of Steam Arm & Cork Leg and Bar414~Steam Pills are mentioned on the on the cover of Three Hundred Years. Both are derivatives of Bar402~Steam Arm.
A song of comradeship. The narrator describes the work especially the dangers of barrowing soil. He suspects the contractor of underpaying him. On receiving his pay he goes on the spree, and leaves without paying his tommy shop bill. He assumes that the women encountered by the men during the spree will be pregnant.
The court of chancery was infamous for delay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Chancery#Further_reform
A navvy arrives at Newcastle and after eating and shaving goes courting. His "true love" becomes pregnant and presents him with a son.
