"It won't do," and he took off his glasses, which were made of ebony, set in a crystal frame. On the rims signs and letters were engraved in characters that looked rather Eastern. If you examined carefully you saw that round one lens was engraved:
DON'T LOOK AT ME.
And on the other one:
FOR YOU DON'T HEAR WITH YOUR EYES.
"We wish to have three girls"
Smaly paid no attention to the spectacles, but answered the Crow's remark.
"Why won't it do?" he asked.
The Crow opened his beak to answer, then he shut it again, and put on his glasses, for he only wore them when he wanted to speak, and did not particularly wish to see.