Math story · Paddock pups
Sheep Groups of Sixteen

The race spat sheep in calm sixteens when soft eye worked.
Groups of sixteen, said Spike. Count the groups, then multiply with looking.
Suzy clapped: sixteen, thirty-two, forty-eight. Three groups. Not forty-nine for a special ewe.
A goat tried to join a sheep sixteen. Different species. Different queue.
Adventure Cap wanted a magic bigger number. Care said stop at the honest total.
Thinking Cap habit: plan, count once, check. Cap does not invent by magic.
Pavlova supervised like a fluffy accountant and added zero by staring.
Little Thunder declined commentary with mahogany dignity.
Kids: forty-eight stickers in packs of sixteen — three packs. Check each pack once.
Farm maths is a promise living things can trust.
Tools remind. Soft landings still happen.
Suzy spelled S-U-Z-Y once for joy, then back to the numbers.
Three groups of sixteen = forty-eight.
Three groups of sixteen = forty-eight.