come the property of the
player taking the last trick. A good memory and keen powers of
observation are essential in playing this game.

In _Twenty-One-Point Casino_ nothing is scored until the end of the
deal. A second or third deal is usually necessary before one side
scores the requisite 21. In the final deal each side keeps a mental
count of the points made, and as soon as 21 are scored the game is
claimed and the points shown. But if, when added to those already
scored in previous deals, they make more or less than 21, the claimant
loses the game. In counting out _cards_ count first, followed by
_spades, Big Casino, Little Casino, aces_ and _sweeps_, in that order.

_Spade Casino_ is a variation in which the usual 11 points count as in
the regular game, and, in addition, each spade counts 1, excepting the
knave of spades, which counts 2, making 24 points in all. These are
scored on a cribbage-board, each point being marked as it is made. The
game is for 61 points, or once round the board and into the game-hole.

CASINUM, an ancient town of Italy, probably of Volscian origin. Varro
states that the name was Sabine, and meant _forum vetus_, and also that
the town itself was Samnite, but he is probably wrong. When it came
under Roman supremacy is not known, but it probably received the
citizenship in 188 B.C. It was the most south-easterly town in _Latium
adjectum_, situated on the Via Latina about 40 m. N.W. of Capua. It
appears occasionally in the history of the Hannibalic War. Varro
possessed a villa near it, in which later on Mark Antony held his
orgies. Towards the end of the republic it was a _praefectura_, and
under the empire it appears as a colony (perhaps founded by the
triumvirs), though in two (not local) inscriptions it is called
_municipium_. Strabo speaks of it as an important town; Varro mentions
the olive-oil of its district as especially good. The older Volscian
Casinum must have stood on the hill (1715 ft.) above the Roman town (148
ft.), where considerable remains of fortifications in Cyclopean masonry,
of finely cut blocks of limestone, still exist. The site is now occupied
by the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino (q.v.) founded by St
Benedict himself in 529. A number of Roman inscriptions from Casinum are
preserved there. The wall which runs south-west and west starting from
the west side of the monastery, for a total length of about 300 yds., is
not so c