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Coffee Break Collection 028 - Hobbies

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Read by Larry Wilson, Rita Boutros, William Allan Jones, Colleen McMahon, ashten999, BettyB, Michele Fry, Garth Burton, Lynne T, Nan Dodge, Patrick Wallace and Anita Sloma-Martinez · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Amateur Radio Handbook: Introduction by A. Frederick Collins (11:36)
excerpt from The Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New by Walter Crane (15:41)
Birdie by Elizabeth Brightwen (8:48)
A-Birding Among the New Jersey Pines by Creswell J. Hunt (5:55)
Casey At The Bat, by Earnest Lawrence Thayer (3:58)
The Choice of a Boat by A.J. Kenealy (8:36)
Collecting Playing Cards by Charles William Taussig (7:57)
Coursing the Prongbuck by Theodore Roosevelt (13:24)
Feeding Birds in Summer and Winter by Elizabeth Brightwen (8:17)
Flying Kites by Anonymous, from "The Mastery of Air" (6:09)
The Gentle Art of Quilting by Clara B. Miller, article from Good Housekeeping magazine, August, 1896 (5:32)
Home Dressmaking from Armour's Monthly Cook Book October 1913 edited by Mary Jane McClure (2:43)
Mrs. Washington's Eternal Knitting by Fanny Fern (4:28)
Old English Embroidery by Emily Leigh Lowes (7:05)
Poultry for Beginners by Eric Wood (13:33)
The Hobby Rider by Jerome K. Jerome (16:59)
The Romance of Stamp Collecting by Edward J. Nankivell (5:59)
Stamp Collecting as a Pastime by Edward J. Nankivell (1848 - 1909) (5:18)
Tame Butterflies by Elizabeth Brightwen (6:17)
A Word about Golf by Charles William Taussig (5:57)