Triple the Water Cups

Four cups filled one trough line, neat and honest.

Triple it, said Spike. How many cups for three lines?

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

Not thirteen because thirst felt loud. Loud is not a measuring cup.

They poured twelve cups across three lines and left the bay calm.

Quails appreciated the plan. Chickens practised patient queue maths.

Adventure Cap wanted a dramatic flood. Care said pour enough, then stop.

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

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

Farm times-tables are promises animals can drink later.

Tools remind. Cups still get carried.

Three times four = twelve. Soft pour.

3 × 4 = twelve cups.