“Here the grey man expressed his astonishment and disapprobation by a prolonged whistle”

—Wenderholme II. 91.²

This is the interjection whew! But why does disagreeable surprise so express itself? I think it is rather when something turns out the contrary of what one expects.

The fox scheming to catch a goose would picture to himself the goose in some of its usual haunts, then he would imagine some way of pouncing upon it,