She c****d her head and Scarlett thought she looked like nothing so much as an old, knowing parrot.
"No, I don't know, I'm sure," she answered politely. But she was heartily bored, even as she had been the day when Grandma launched on her memories of the Creek uprising.
"Well, this is the reason. We bow to the inevitable. We're not wheat, we're buckwheat!
When a storm comes along it flattens ripe wheat because it's dry and can't bend with the wind.
But ripe buckwheat's got sap in it and it bends. And when the wind has passed, it springs up almost as straight and strong as before. We aren't a stiff-necked tribe. We're mighty limber when a hard wind's blowing, because we know it pays to be limber. When trouble comes we bow to the inevitable without any mouthing, and we work and we smile
