Sheep Groups of Six

The race spat sheep in calm sixes — six and six when soft eye worked.

Groups of six, said Spike. Count the groups, then multiply with looking.

Suzy clapped: six, twelve, eighteen. Three groups. Eighteen sheep.

Not nineteen because Woolworth looked special. Special still counts as one.

Biltong tried to join a sheep six. Different species. Different queue.

Soft eye kept the groups true. Numbers without soft eye become shove maths.

Thinking Cap habit: group, then count groups. Cap does not invent sheep.

Little Thunder stood clear of the race like a sensible mahogany fence post.

Kids: eighteen toys in three piles of six. Skip-count by sixes.

Muster maths can be a rhythm — then a latch.

Lead keeps the count and the kindness together.

Three groups of six = eighteen.

Three groups of six = eighteen.