CHAPTER IX. 



CADDIS-WORMS. 



" Sometimes he angers me 

 With telling me of the mold warp and the ant," 

 " And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff 

 As puts me from my faith." 



King Henry IV. 



IN the other brook, on stones in the water, yet 

 near the margin, I nave found small Caddis-worms 

 in their tubes. Among those that I once brought 

 home was a little fellow barely three eighths of an 

 inch long. He had made his tiny case of grains 

 of sand and minute stones very neatly put to- 

 gether. 



For a time I gazed upon him, and then com- 

 menced the struggle of Sandy's life. Very care- 

 fully I began to take his covering to pieces, 

 intending to see him make a new one. 

 But so tenacious were the materials that I 

 only succeeded in making a hole in the 



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hinder portion, leaving a little of his body with 



, . J Caddis- 

 exposed. I was too much afraid 01 hurt- fly larva 



ing him to go on. in li ' 



But I had done enough. Sandy knew the dan- 

 gers of having holes in one's clothes. He would 

 attend to that rent immediately. 



