Math story · Paddock pups
Triple the Shade Chairs

Six shade chairs waited like soft commas under the tree.
Visitor plan: triple the chairs. Six times three — how many?
Suzy said eighteen. Not nineteen for a magic spare.
Six, twelve, eighteen. Three soft sets.
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: six blocks, three times. Count the pile 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.
Six tripled = eighteen.
Six tripled = eighteen.