Math story · Paddock pups
Triple the Water Buckets

Seven buckets stood by the trough like soft soldiers.
Hot day plan: triple the buckets. Seven times three — how many?
Suzy said twenty-one. Not twenty-two for a magic spare.
Seven, fourteen, twenty-one. 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: seven 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.
Seven tripled = twenty-one.
Seven tripled = twenty-one.