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Show HAD NEVER SLEPT IN HOUSE. English Gipsy, Aged Ninety-Nine, Made Unique Boatt. Tho death was recently nnnouncod of "Gipsy Sarah," tho "mother" of Lancashire gipsies, and probably the oldest and boat-known gipsy In England. Eng-land. She died In her tent on tho Dunes, near Blackpool, aged 99. Sho claimed to bo tho head of tho great Boswell family ot gipsies, and It wna her boast that sho had never slopt In a house, and had never had a doctor until her last Illness. Sho was born In Kent, but sho had lived undor 'canvas at Blackpool for tho last 77 years. With her husband (fllnco doad) she pitched her tent at North shoro, when Blackpool was a Ashing vlllago, near the cliffs which tho sea now threatens to engulf. They drifted, farther and farther afield, as tho builder encroached upon tho opon country, until she got to the Dunes, a longer distance from tho habitations habita-tions of men than any other mombors ot tho trlbo. |