Isn't it amazing that words can have the power to take your breath away sometimes. They are spoken so frequently in our normal every day passage...they are used and abused all the time....but...then someone comes along and is able to display his ability to hold the reader transfixed till the end of the story like this. A brilliant story for an adult..short and concise, let alone a 10 year old. 'I dips me lid' to Walter and wonder at his power to 'take my breath away'.