The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-13 00:00:00

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The .New I orb; : ftihies of •the'3oth contains
the follewiinqeor4nunication relative .to certain ex-
traordinarV" narratives which have . been ••widely
circulated. in the English preSs,' and have formed
the _suh.stance of .severe "leaders." in the_ Saturday
eview .andio • •#,
z.
day. Aug: 26,1859.
" I have.le6-1-ciali.--.t to a practical joke
while it is kept within the bounds of decency; nor
do I feel it my-MAY/to, Inids6 my•self -a- knight-
errant for the purpose of 'priCking' all the bubbles
kvhieh crafty'speimilatorS may think it worth their
while to blow, or exploding all the hoaxes by which
Some needy character -may-try to turn his poor little
penny. • It is Of very Win ns'e to save a fool from his
folly, and what mi_ple• like to believe suppose
tbey will bel;eye, , kite, of. ro.a.'lon and evidence
Moreoverc as a'citizen of Niagara, I presume
That I shall, in one way or another, be a-gainer one
of these da.'y by the sudden- inouX of money into our
town, which has • folluv.-ecl the splendid success of
the great Biondi!) 'lnimbug. Nkvertheless. the thing
is really ',-et-ting to be so excessively and extrava-
gantly absurd,-that Loma any longer refrain from •
speakingthe truth about it. When it comes to assert-
ing that Blondin cooks his dinner on a tightrope and
feeds the passengers on the Maid of the Mist with
omelettes, dropped like,manna from the sky, I must
speak out in meeting,' and say what none of the
tee • thousand
,imported dupes of ,our wonderful
story can be expected in deferenCe to human frailty
toiberther first• to -make rkno.wn—that for aught I.
know there is 'no such person in the world, or at
least in Niagara, as Mr. Blondin, at all ; that he
has never crossed the-Falls on a tight-rope, or a
slack rope, or any rope at pll but the string of a
very long bow ; and that; agthe people of Niagara,
Rochester, and the western ritaways of New York
have already made perhaps quite money enough
out of their jest's prosperity,' it is time that the
thing should be put a stop to before foolish people
elsewhere may be led into serious danger by,
attempting to rival feats that have never been per-
formed. Since the immortal Moon Hoax' there
has been- nothing so suucessful I suppose in the
way of a vast quiz as the rope-walking invention of
a bright Niagara bar-keeper, with its echoes from
Rochester and other places along our line of coun-
try. As I have not been away from home during
the whol summer, I think I am a tolerably credible
witness ; iiiiistltherefare, assure you that the
whole of this wonderful series-of stories has grown
up out -of -a- bet made by a person. well known in
iinto o. weeks abrinnt4 xnFoarie)ipheaodpleel,,teor
Nthiiasataorr
brought here in as inhny months. • How the rope-
daneing dodge ,necurred. to him liiklet4. profess to
know, blithe selected Blendin as his hg ho, because
there was a Blondin,once in 'this counirs:, With•the
Ravels, a '•'ery good rope-dancer, now. ;retired and
-living somewhere in the country of yoy, who
o could not of cgsp hear of the story in time to con-
tradict it. Anything funnier'or more foolish than
the'faces OF the crowds 'which have- succeeded each
other clown about. the Falls on each successive day
announced for the feats' you never saw and the
haels have reaped a golden liars4gt. But you will
obser'Ve that not a single-individual has ventured in
any letters from Niagara to say, that he saw
Blondin do any of these things. Our local edit Ors
and others. 'of course, enjoying the joke, have joined
in it ;,ianclta very goodijolce it has been certainly ;
but;it, seems, to _me it oughiti to be regarded now as
played out,. The good people of our town have
had their fini out of`You,•you must admit, and hive
=deli snug thing outc,of it; toe, in a ppeunialy
way. But a joke, as I said before, is a joke, and
" R. E. P."
has its bounds. .

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