pard,

That's what they'll strike, I reckon; that's how they'll find their pard,

Ballads of a Cheechako 1916

Jack was in his most frolicsome mood and amused them both with tricks half-puppy and half-monkey like, and in the morning, when the stranger was leaving, he said: "Say, pard,

Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903