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Show HAD NEVER SLEPT IN HOUSE. English Gipsy, Aged Ninety-Nine, Made Unique Boast. The death was recently announce 1 of "Gipsy Sarah," tlio "mother of r.ancashlro gipsies, and probably the oldest and best known gipsy In Kng land. Sho died In her tent on th'' Dunes, near lllackpool, aged 99 She claimed to bo tho head ot tho great Hoswell family of gipsies, nml It was her boast that sho had never slept In a house, and had never bad a doctor until her last Illness She was horn In Kent but she had lived under canvas at lllackpool for the last 77 eats. With her husband (since dead) she pitched her tent at North shore, when lllackpool was a fishing village, near the cliffs which tho sea now threatens to engulf. They drifted farther and faither afield, as the builder encioached upon the open coiintr, until sho got to the Dunes. a longer distance, from the habitations habita-tions of men than any other members of the tilhe. |