The story is told from a child's point of view. The narrator is Oswald, but on the first page he announces: "It is one of us that tells this story but I shall not tell you which: only at the very end perhaps I will. While the story is going on you may be trying to guess, only I bet you don't."However, his occasional lapse into first person, and the undue praise he likes to heap on himself, makes his identity obvious to the attentive reader long before...