Then she said: “Sister, give me the tooth for I would eat my acorns. Take the eye and keep watch.” [pg 158]
The one who was eating held out the tooth, and the one who was watching held out the eye. The youth darted into the cave. Standing between the eyeless sisters, he took with one hand the tooth and with the other the eye.
“Sister, sister, have you taken the eye?”
“I have not taken the eye. Have you taken the tooth?”
“I have not taken the tooth.”
“Some one has taken the eye, and some one has taken the tooth.”
They stood together, and the youth watched their blinking faces as they tried to discover who had come into the cave, and who had taken the eye and the tooth.
Then they said, screaming together: “Who ever has taken the eye and the tooth from the Graiai, the ancient daughters of Phorcys, may Mother Night smother him.”
The youth spoke. “Ancient daughters of Phorcys,” he said, “Graiai, I would not rob from you. I have come to your cave only to ask the way to a place.”
“Ah, it is a mortal, a mortal,” screamed the sisters. “Well, mortal, what would you have from the Graiai?”