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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 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. 1 



There is also another cadis, called by some a Straw- 

 worm, and by some a Ruff-coat,* whose house, . g^ i^fra, 

 or case, is made of little pieces of bents, and P- z 9, Note. 

 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 bris- 

 tles of a hedge-hog. These three cadises 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 they 

 have their time also of turning to be flies later in sum- 

 mer; 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 



(I) To preserve cadis, grasshoppers, 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 a 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 ; into this put your baits : tie it 

 over with a colewort leaf; and lay it io the grass every night. In this manner 

 cadis may be kept till they turn to Hies. To grasshoppers you may put grass. 



