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It is believed to be a reference taken from an old poem referring to a showground-owner's claim. The poem, by Patrick Chalmers, includes the lines: "But looking at it broad, and while it ain't no merchant kings,

'What's lost upon the roundabouts, we pulls up on the swings."

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