`` Sister ! Sister Scarecrow ! '' cried she , `` you have had the eye long enough . It is my turn now ! '' `` Let me keep it a moment longer , Sister Nightmare , '' answered Scarecrow . `` I thought I had a glimpse of something behind that thick bush . '' `` Well , and what of that ? '' retorted Nightmare , peevishly . `` Ca n't I see into a thick bush as easily as yourself ? The eye is mine , as well as yours ; and I know the use of it as well as you , or may be a little better . I insist upon taking a peep immediately ! '' But here the third sister , whose name was Shakejoint , began to complain , and said that it was her turn to have the eye , and that Scarecrow and Nightmare wanted to keep it all to themselves . To end the dispute , old Dame Scarecrow took the eye out of her forehead , and held it forth in her hand . `` Take it , one of you , '' cried she , `` and quit this foolish quarrelling . For my part , I shall be glad of a little thick darkness . Take it quickly , however , or I must clap it into my own head again ! '' Accordingly , both Nightmare and Shakejoint stretched out their hands , groping eagerly to snatch the eye out of the hand of Scarecrow . But , being both alike blind , they could not easily find where Scarecrow 's hand was ; and Scarecrow , being now just as much in the dark as Shakejoint and Nightmare , could not at once meet either of their hands , in order to put the eye into it . Thus -LRB- as you will see , with half an eye , my wise little auditors -RRB- , these good old dames had fallen into a strange perplexity . For , though the eye shone and glistened like a star , as Scarecrow held it out , yet the Gray Women caught not the least glimpse of its light , and were all three in utter darkness , from too impatient a desire to see .
Quicksilver was so much tickled XXXXX beholding Shakejoint and Nightmare both groping for the eye , and each finding fault with Scarecrow and one another , that he could scarcely help laughing aloud .
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