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not unlike the bristles of a hedgehog. These three cadises 

 are commonly taken in the beginning of summer ; and are 



food, indeed, to take any kind offish, with float or otherwise. 1 

 might tell you of many more, which as these do early, so 

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

 mer ; but I might lose myself and tire you by such a dis- 

 course : 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 over ; 

 and, if he had, is not capable of learning. 



I'll 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, 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 ; and a very little thin lead, so put upon the shank of 

 the hook that it may sink presently. Throw this bait, thus 

 ordered, which will look very yellow, into any great still 



1 Cadis- worms are found against the sides of posts or boards, or rushes, 

 about a foot under water, where they cling, and look like bits of rotten 

 sticks or reeds. They lie thick by the sides of shallows, on the sand, iii 

 any little creeks or ditches nigh the river. Use a cleft stick as directed in 

 the text. BROWNE. The habits of the cadis- worm are very curious and 

 interesting. It spins round itself a sort of silken sheath, to which it 

 agglutinates very various materials, forming a case, in which it is well 

 protected from its enemies. No worm presents so singular an appearance. 

 Some of the cases are composed of minute shells, especially the small 

 water-snail ; some of fragments of wood, straw or twigs ; some of aquatic 

 and vegetable refuse. The piper-cadis, or straw-worm, encases itself 

 within two pieces of reed or rush, from which it protrudes its head and 

 feet, and thus crawls along the bottom of the water. Figures of the various 

 sorts of cadis will be found inWestwood's "Classification of Insects," 

 2 vols. 8vo. ED. 



