Math story · Working dogs
Skip Count by Sevens

The yard wanted a skip-count rhythm for the muster gate.
By sevens, said Spike. Soft claps. Honest number.
Suzy clapped: seven, fourteen, twenty-one, twenty-eight, thirty-five.
Five soft sevens. Not thirty-six for a magic bonus clap.
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: skip-count by sevens to thirty-five. Check each clap 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.
Five sevens = thirty-five.
Five sevens = thirty-five.