His Guardian Auto Filming Locations

Everybody agrees that Billy Budd should settle down. But no one has the nerve to tell him so. Billy Budd, says everybody, is fast. He travels in fast company, and be drives a fast automobile. It really is a pity. But who will undertake to reform him? It does not occur to anybody that Billy's auto has constituted itself his guardian spirit. Yet, the car, apart from Billy's influence, really is a remarkably good sort. One evening its owner leads it into evil ways. Stopping at a roadside inn to get some wine for himself and some gasoline for the auto, he finds the supply of gasoline has run out. Billy has had a lively day. So he reasons that if champagne be good for him it will do also for the auto. He loads up the machine with wine and starts off on a record run. Now it was Billy's guardian's first drunk, and Billy still is curdling the blood of his friends telling the stunts that reeling car went through. He describes the rest of the performance in this way: "When I woke up in the morning I was in bed and the auto was asleep on the floor. I sent for some ice water and gave myself and the car a nice, cool drink. Then I bound up my head with a cloth and fixed a bandage for the car's radiator. That car was grateful, just like a human. That afternoon when I went outside, it came running up to me exactly like a sheep dog. It did everything except wag its name plate. I was talking with Flossie Footlights at the time and I invited her to take a ride. But the auto whizzed off before she could set foot in the machine. It took me right out in the country and drew up before the prettiest farm girl you ever would hope to see. She smiled at me. And that was the beginning of the good citizen I've been ever since.