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into fit pieces. Nay, mulberries and those blackberries which 

 grow upon briers be good baits for Chubs or Carps : with these 

 many have been taken in ponds, and in 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 dis- 

 tinct 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 Cockspur, 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 may be so pre- 

 served, 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 beginning of summer ; and are good, indeed, to 



