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m. Bef 1621
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Grace is thought to be the daughter of a Welsh farmer. Story of two suitors for Grace's hand and she agreed to marry the better reaper. During the reaping she helped Thomas thus insuring that he would finish first. As reprinted in a Hatch newsletter in the 1920s: "Miss Grace, it seems, was a very winsome and popular young woman and Thomas had more than one rival for her heart, and hand. But the contest finally simmered down to Thomas and one other, and Miss Grace found it difficult to decide which she liked the better. Finally, as they were farmers, it was agreed by all concerned that fate should be determined by a reaping match, he who could reap a certain equal measured portion of a field of grain, to get the prize. And Miss Grace, being herself a farmer's daughter and a skillful reaper determined that she also would have a hand in the contest that was to decide her fate. Consequently she, with true feminine diplomacy, had her equal portion staked out between the other two and the contest began. Reaping grain at that time was done by the hand sickle. In the meantime as her fate was so near a determination, Miss Grace did some vigorous thinking as is apt to be the case when events of serious consequences are imminent and having concluded that, on the whole, she rather liked Thomas a little the better, she slyly cut over a little onto Thomas' portion, thus enabling him to finish slightly ahead." (reprinted at http://www.geocities.com/~weekseekers/hatch.html)
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