CHAP. XVII.] THE FIFTH DAY. 191 



to be an angler has not leisure to search after, and, if he had, is 

 not capable of learning.^ 



I'll tell you, scholar ; several countries have several kinds of 

 cadlses, 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 how, or of what, this cadis receives life, or what col- 

 oured 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 hole where a Trout is, and he will 

 pi'esently venture his life for it, it is not to be doubted, if you be 

 not espied; and that the bait first touch the water before the line. 

 And this will do best in the deepest, stiUest water. 



Next, let me tell you, I have been much pleased to walk quietly 

 by a brook, with a little stick in my hand, with which I might 

 easily take these, and consider the curiosity of their composure : 

 and if you should ever like to do so, then note, that your stick 

 must be a little hazel, or willow, cleft, or have a nick at one end 

 of it, by which means you may, with ease, take many of them in 

 that nick out of the water, before you have any occasion to use 

 them. These, my honest scholar, are some observations, told to 

 you as they now come suddenly into my memory, of which you 

 may make . some use : but for the practical part, it is that that 

 makes an angler : it is diligence, and observation, and practice,' 

 and an ambition to be the best in the art, that must do it. I will 

 tell you, scholar, I once heard one say, " I envy not him that eats 

 better meat than I do ; nor him that is richer, or that wears better 

 clothes than I do : I envy nobody but him, and him only, that 

 catches more fish than I do." And such a man is like to prove 



VARIATIONS. 



6 that every one that professes angling is not capahte of. — u/ and zd edit. 



7 In the first edition this chapter concludes, " It is diligence and observation, and 

 practice that must do it ; *' and the next begins, " Well, scholar, I have held you too 

 long about these Cadis, and mjr spirits are almost spent, and so I doubt is your patience ; 

 but being we are now within sight of Tottenham, where I first met you, and where we 

 are to part, I will give you a little direction how to colour the hair of which you make 

 your lines," &c. 



