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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 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 

 siraw-worm ; and by some a rujf-coat t 

 whose house, or ca>e, is made, of 4.305, !/,/' 

 little pieces of bents, and rushes, and 

 straws, and water- weeds, and I know not what; 

 which arc so knit together with condensed slime, that 

 they stick about her husk or case, not unlike the bris- 

 tles of a hedge-hog. These three cadises are, comrnon- 



* To preserve cadis, grashoppers, caterpillars, oak worms, or natural 

 flies, the following is an excellent method : Cut a round bough of fine 

 green-barked withy, about the thickness of one's arm ; and, taking off 

 the bark about a foot in length, turn both ends together, into the form of 

 an hoop, and fasten them with a pack-needle and thread ; then stop up 

 the bottom with a bung-cork : and with a red hot wire, bore the bark 

 full of holes: (see Plate XII. Fig. 6.) Into this, put 

 your baits; tie it over with a colewort leaff; and \ The Editor 



lay it in the grass every night. In this manner, ca- has here tram- 

 dis may be kept, till they turn to flies. To grashop- posed a line. 

 pers, you may put grass, 



