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 Nymphs ; and , unless you get that information , you will never succeed in cutting off the head of Medusa with the snaky locks . Keep fast hold of the eye , and all will go well . '' As it turned out , Quicksilver was in the right . There are but few things that people prize so much as they do their eyesight ; and the Gray Women valued their single eye as highly as if it had been half a dozen , which was the number they ought to have had .
Finding that there was no other way XXXXX recovering it , they at last told Perseus what he wanted to know .
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