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distinct counties, and in several little brooks that relate to 

 bigger rivers ; as, namely, one caddis 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 caddis-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 : 3 

 this kind of caddis is a choice bait for any float-fish ; it is 

 much less than the piper-caddis, 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 caddis, 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 caddises are 

 commonly taken in the beginning 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 



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