`` My respectable dames , '' said he , -- for his mother had taught him always to use the greatest civility , -- `` I hold your eye fast in my hand , and shall keep it safely for you , until you please to tell me where to find these Nymphs . The Nymphs , I mean , who keep the enchanted wallet , the flying slippers , and the what is it ? -- the helmet of invisibility . '' `` Mercy on us , sisters ! what is the young man talking about ? '' exclaimed Scarecrow , Nightmare , and Shakejoint , one to another , with great appearance of astonishment . `` A pair of flying slippers , quoth he ! His heels would quickly fly higher than his head , if he were silly enough to put them on . And a helmet of invisibility ! How could a helmet make him invisible , unless it were big enough for him to hide under it ? And an enchanted wallet ! What sort of a contrivance may that be , I wonder ? No , no , good stranger ! we can tell you nothing of these marvellous things . You have two eyes of your own , and we have but a single one amongst us three . You can find out such wonders better than three blind old creatures , like us . '' Perseus , hearing them talk in this way , began really to think that the Gray Women knew nothing of the matter ; and , as it grieved him to have put them to so much trouble , he was just on the point of restoring their eye and asking pardon for his rudeness in snatching it away . But Quicksilver caught his hand . `` Do n't let them make a fool of you ! '' said he .
`` These Three Gray Women are the only persons in the world that can tell you where to find the XXXXX ; and , unless you get that information , you will never succeed in cutting off the head of Medusa with the snaky locks .
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