21.  Humans, it turns out, keep time the same way other animals do.

22.  I was finding words easier to pound than drumheads, and nobody was keeping time.

23.  In every game, the clock counts up and the official time is kept by the referee.

24.  Instead of marking hours, it keeps time in minutes and seconds.

25.  It keeps perfect time.

26.  Keeping time, a line of women fetchingly behatted snaked around the market booths looking every bit like an unusual academic procession.

27.  Most PC clocks keep time about as well as what you get at Free Watch Night at the ballgame.

28.  Mostly she laughed and laughed and the plaza burst out with loud hand-clapping as the workers kept better time to the music than I could.

29.  On Dumaine Street, a man picked up a gin bottle and tapped it with a stick, keeping time.

30.  Now set your clock and watch it keep time.