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dwells, is made of small husks, and gravel, and slime, 

 most curiously made of these, even so as to be won- 

 dered at, but not to be made by man, no more than 

 a king-fisher's nest can, which is made of little fishes' 

 bones, and have 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 hedge-hog. 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 they do early, so those have their time also of 

 turning to be flies in later 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 particu- 

 lar 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'll 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 grey- 

 hound 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, or of what, this cadis 



