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some rivers where such trees have grown near the 

 water, and the fruit customarily dropped into it. 

 And there be a hundred other baits, more than 

 can be well named ; which, by constant baiting 

 the water, will become a tempting bait for any 

 fish in it. 



You are also to know that there be divers kinds 

 of cadis or case-worms, that are to be found in 

 this nation in several distinct counties, and in 

 several little brooks that relate to bigger rivers : as 

 namely one cadis, called a piper, whose husk or 

 case is a piece of reed about an inch long or 

 longer, and as big about as the compass of a two- 

 pence. These worms being kept three or four 

 days in a woollen bag with sand at the bottom of 

 it, and the bag wet once a day, will in three or 

 four days turn to be yellow ; and these be a choice 

 bait for the chub or chavender, or indeed for any 

 great fish, for it is a large bait. 



There is also a lesser cadis-worm, called a cock- 

 spur, being in fashion like the spur of a cock, 

 sharp at one end ; and the case or house in which 

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

 slime, most curiously made of these, even so as 

 to be wondered at ; but not to be made by man, no 

 more than a kingfisher'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 



