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Coffee Break Collection 028 - Hobbies

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. (2 hr 44 min)

Chapters

01 - Amateur Radio Handbook: Introduction by A. Frederick Collins

11:36

02 - excerpt from The Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New by Walter Cr…

15:41

03 - Birdie by Elizabeth Brightwen

8:48

04 - A-Birding Among the New Jersey Pines by Creswell J. Hunt

5:55

05 - Casey At The Bat, by Earnest Lawrence Thayer

3:57

06 - The Choice of a Boat by A.J. Kenealy

8:35

07 - Collecting Playing Cards by Charles William Taussig

7:56

08 - Coursing the Prongbuck by Theodore Roosevelt

13:23

09 - Feeding Birds in Summer and Winter by Elizabeth Brightwen

8:16

10 - Flying Kites by Anonymous, from "The Mastery of Air"

6:09

11 - The Gentle Art of Quilting by Clara B. Miller, article from Good Housekeep…

5:32

12 - Home Dressmaking from Armour's Monthly Cook Book October 1913 edited by Ma…

2:43

13 - Mrs. Washington's Eternal Knitting by Fanny Fern

4:28

14 - Old English Embroidery by Emily Leigh Lowes

7:05

15 - Poultry for Beginners by Eric Wood

13:33

16 - The Hobby Rider by Jerome K. Jerome

16:59

17 - The Romance of Stamp Collecting by Edward J. Nankivell

5:58

18 - Stamp Collecting as a Pastime by Edward J. Nankivell (1848 - 1909)

5:17

19 - Tame Butterflies by Elizabeth Brightwen

6:16

20 - A Word about Golf by Charles William Taussig

5:57