Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 417

Besides taking part in the musical performances, a large number of the skilled workmen devote their leisure hours to various scientific amusements,--such as natural history, taxidermy, the making of philosophical instruments, such as air-pumps, models of working machinery, steam-engines, and articles of domestic comfort,--while some have even manufactured organs and other musical instruments.

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