Coffee Break Collection 028 - Hobbies

Genres: Essays & Short Works Non-fiction Short Stories

Narrators:Larry Wilson, Rita Boutros, William Allan Jones, Colleen McMahon, ashten999, BettyB, Michele Fry, Garth Burton, Lynne T, Nan Dodge, Patrick Wallace, Anita Sloma-Martinez

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1/20Amateur Radio Handbook: Introduction by A. Frederick Collins

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

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This is the 28th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject for this collection is "HOBBIES"... and the collection is full after 20 pieces have been submitted.