The verb ‘to fake,’ means, in the thieves’ vocabulary, to steal; but circus men use it in a different sense, ‘faked up’ meaning ‘fixed,’ while ‘fakements’ is applied particularly to circus apparatus and properties, and generally to moveables of any kind. ‘Letty’ is used both as a noun and a verb, signifying ‘lodging’ and ‘to lodge.’ To abscond from a place, to evade payment of debts, or from apprenticeship, is sometimes called ‘doing a bunk,’ but this phrase is used by other classes also, circus men more frequently using the phrase, ‘doing a Johnny Scaparey,’ the last word being accented on the second syllable. The circus is always called the ‘show;’ I have never heard it termed the ‘booth,’ which is the word which Dickens puts into the mouth of Cissy Jupe, the little daughter of the clown of Sleary’s circus, in _Hard Times_. Gymnasts call their performance a ‘slang,’ but I am not aware that the term is used by other circus _artistes_. The joke or anecdote of a clown is called ‘a wheeze,’ and he is said when engaged in that part of his business, to be ‘cracking a wheeze.’ Balloons, banners, and garters are merely special applications to circus uses of ordinary English terms. A balloon is a large hoop, covered with tissue paper, held up for an equestrian _artiste_ to jump through; a banner is a bordered cloth held horizontally, to be jumped over,—what Albert Smith calls a length of stair carpet; and garters are narrow bands held in the same manner, and for the same purpose. When an equestrian fails to clear these, he is said to ‘miss his tip,’ which is the gravest article of Childers’s impeachment of Jupe, in Dickens’s interesting story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the Gradgrinds and the Bounderbys. Dickens put two or three other words into the mouth of the same member of Sleary’s company which I have never heard, and which do not appear to be now in use. Jupe is said to have become ‘loose in his ponging,’ though still a good ‘cackler;’ and Bounderby is reminded sarcastically that he is on the ‘tight jeff.’ Childers explains that ‘ponging’ means tumbling, ‘cackling’ talking, and ‘jeff’ a rope.