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Show HAD NEVER W-EPT IN HOUSE. English Qleey, Aged Ninety-Nine. Made Unique Beast. The death wae recently anaounced of "CMpey Sarah." the "mether" ot Lancashire gipsies, and probably the oldest and best-known gipsy In England. Eng-land. She died la her tent on the Dunce, near Blackpool, aged 99. She claimed to be the head of the great Boswell family ot gipsies, and It was her boast that she had never slopt In a house, and had never had a doctor until her last Illness. She was born In Kent, but she bad lived under canvas at Blackpool for the last Tf years. With her husband (since dead) she pitched her tent at North shore, when Blackpool was a fishing village, near the cliffs which the sea now threatens to engulf. They drifted farther and farther afield, as the builder encroached upon the open country, until she got to the Dunes, a longer distance from the habitations habita-tions of men than any other members of the tribe. |