The first is that it is a better guitar than the one Julian sold.

Not twice as good.

But a Les Paul Studio is a serious instrument and that one has a maple cap and a proper nitrocellulose finish and it will outlive my son.

The second is that Hollis, who sold it, had bought it in a trade in the August from a man who was giving up, and had had it on the wall for three months, and when Officer Cooper came in with a cheque from a benevolent association and explained what it was for, Hollis took a hundred and fifty dollars off the price and then kept the hundred and fifty in an envelope behind the counter and gave it to my son in cash the first time he came in, which was the April, and told him it was for lessons.

Nobody has ever put Hollis in this story either.