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“I now propose a toast, as my ‘friend and pardner, Sairy Gamp’, says.

And pardner still goes on to this day.

And what was Compeyson’s business in which we was to go pardners?

When the Windrush generation came to the UK they discovered credit services from banks were not easy to come by and pardners allowed many to save to buy homes or cars.

A ringmaster — or ringmistress, in this case — asks us “little pardners and big buckaroos” to relax into our seats while the troupe acts out a story.