CHAP. XVII.] 



TIIE FIFTH DAY. 



285 



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. 1 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 CocJcspur, 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 2 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, 



Cadis, iu the husk. 



Tie Fly. 



On the wing. 



1 The half-groat of stgrling silver, coined for the last time in the currency 

 of Charles I. 



2 Walton here mistakes for a kingfisher's nest, the round crustaceous 

 shell of the sea urchin (Echinus.) The kingfisher does not appear to 

 make any nest, except the flooring of fish bones derived from his prey. 

 KEMNIK. 



