Triple the Hay Bales

Four hay bales filled one bay, neat and honest.

Triple it, said Spike. How many bales for three bays?

Suzy tapped: four and four and four — twelve bales. Three times four.

Not thirteen because hunger felt loud. Loud is not a counting stick.

They stacked twelve bales across three bays and left the shed calm.

Goats appreciated the plan. Sheep practised patient queue maths.

Adventure Cap wanted a dramatic mountain. Care said stack enough, then stop.

Thinking Cap habit: name the groups, then multiply with looking. Cap does not invent bales.

Kids: four blocks in a row — make three rows. Count the pile.

Farm times-tables are promises animals can trust later.

Tools remind. Bales still get carried.

Three times four = twelve. Soft stack.

3 × 4 = twelve bales.