fus-s-s

Updated: May 14, 2025

Is it the same sky which covers Holland, and are these stars as gentle as yonder, where all are rich and happy?" He heard a noise. A voice whispered, just above the edge of the chimney on the river gable: "Fus-s-s! Pas op!" "What is that?" thought Nanking; "somebody saying, 'Hist! be careful? Surely I see something moving on the chimney, like a living head."

George Alfred Townsend - Tales of the Chesapeake