Tea For Two

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Whimsical style done in imaginative fashion Super heroine at the center who needs tea to grow wings on her helmet A token into this amazing contraption starts the 24 step process, each step of which is numbered The horse on the treadmill triggers chains, pulleys, balls and more  Tick-tock… the clock chimes four and Jonathan Burton's superheroine needs her tea with magic vitamins if she wants her helmet to grow wings. She just needs to insert a token and click, trot, clack, boing, the infernal machine starts up, its drive shaft made of a jumble of mechanical parts. Don't laugh, it operates like clockwork and is much more reliable than a pinball machine. Of course, now and again it needs the helping paw of a fat, grumpy cat who hates to be woken up, or the more responsive assistance of an astronaut and his horse. What a contraption!