CHAP. xvii. THE FIFTH DAY. 159 



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 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 

 hedgehog ; these three cadises are commonly taken in the be- 

 ginning 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 or 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 gut ; put the 

 body, as little bruised as is possible, on a very little hook, 

 armed on with a red hair, which will show like the cadis head: 



