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which is made of little fishes' bones, and having such a 

 geometrical interweaving and connection, as the like 

 is not to be done by the art of man : this kind of cadis 

 is a choice bait for any float-fish ; it is much less than 

 the piper-cadis, and to be so ordered ; and these may 

 be so preserved, ten, fifteen, or twenty days, or it may 

 be longer. 



There is also another cadis, called by some a straw- 

 worm, and by some a ruff-coat, whose house or case is 

 made of little pieces of bents, and rushes, and straws, and 

 water-weeds, and I know not what, which are so knit 

 together with condensed slime, that they stick about her 

 husk or case, not unlike the bristles of a hedgehog ; these 

 three cadises are commonly taken in the beginning of 

 summer, and are good indeed to take any kind of fish, 

 with float or otherwise. I might tell you of many more, 

 which as these do early, so those have their time also of 

 turning to be flies later in summer ; but I might lose 

 myself and tire you by such a discourse : I shall therefore 

 but remember you, that to know these and their several 

 kinds, and to what flies every particular cadis turns, and 

 then how to use them, first as they be cadis, and after as 

 they be flies, is an art, and an art that every one that 

 professes to be an angler has not leisure to search after, 

 and, if he had, is not capable of learning. 



I will tell you, scholar, several countries have several 

 kinds of cadises, that indeed differ as much as dogs do ; 

 that is to say, as much as a very cur and a greyhound 

 do. These be usually bred in the very little rills, or ditches, 

 that run into bigger rivers : and, I think, a more proper 

 bait for those very rivers than any other. I know not 

 how, frr of what, this cadis receives life, or what coloured 

 fly it turns to ; but doubtless they are the death of many 

 trouts ; and this is one killing way : 



Take one, or more if need be, of these large yellow 

 cadis : pull off his head, and with it pull out his black 



