nor court-card, it will follow that the knave will be both high, low, jack, and game.

All-fours is played by either two or four players; the same rules applying in this fourhanded, equally as in the two handed game, the deal is taken by each player alternately; and the cut for deal taking place at the commencement of each game.

BLIND ALL-FOURS.

THIS is the more generally played game for two persons. In fact, it is the usual tavern game all over the country, and cannot boast any very aristocratic patronage. Each player has six cards, the first one played by the non-dealer being the trump. There is no begging, and the points are usually seven or nine. Although very simple, all-fours is by no means an uninteresting game. At blind all-fours some reject the sixes and sevens, and count all the pips on all the cards for game.

The score is usually taken on a cribbage-board, or by means of two cards taken from the pack.

ALL-FIVES.

HIS game is played with an entire pack, in the same way as all-fours. But instead of nine or eleyen, sixty-one points are played for, to con

stitute the game, which is marked on a cribbageboard. For ace of trumps the holder marks four points when he plays it; for king of trumps three; for queen two; for knave one; for the five of trumps, five; and for the ten of trumps, ten. If the knave, ten, or five be taken in play by superior cards, the points belonging to them are scored by the winner. In counting for game, the five of trumps is reckoned as five, and all the other aces, kings, queens, knaves, and tens, are counted as in all-fours. A good deal of skill is necessary in order to play this game well; the proficient holding back a superior card to catch the ten or five. Trump after trick is not compulsory unless previously agreed to. The first card played by the non-dealer is the trump. The rest of the rules are the same as in all-fours. It may be played by four persons, either as partners or singly, and is a good merry sort of gawe.

QUADRILLE,

"Straight the three bands prepare the arms to join ;
Each band the number of the sacred Nine.
Soon as she spread her hand, th' aërial guard
Descend, and sit on each important card :
First Ariel perch'd upon a matadore,
Then each, according to the rank they bore;
For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race,
Are, as when women, wond'rous fond of place."
POPE'S Rape of the Lock.

THIS once highly fashionable game is now very seldom played; but as the Card-Player can scarcely be a perfect book without it, I give the directions from Hoyle, and which have been adopted by all later writers. Quadrille is the game made celebrated by Pope in his Rape of the Lock; and that it is rather complicated, the following rules and directions will sufficiently testify.

The game of quadrille is played by four persons, and the number of cards required is forty; the four tens, nines, and eights being discarded from the pack. The deal is made by distributing the cards to each player, three at a time for two rounds, and four for one round, commencing with the right hand player-the elder hand.

The trump is made by the person who plays, with or without calling, by naming spades, clubs, diamonds, or hearts, and the suit so named becomes trumps.

The two following tables will show the rank and order of the cards, when trumps, or when not so:

RANK AND ORDER OF THE CARDS WHEN

Thus it will be seen that spadille and basto are always trumps; and that the red suits have one trump more than the black, the former twelve, and the latter only eleven.

Between spadille and basto there is a trump called manille-in black the deuce, and in red the seven; they are the second cards when trumps, and the last in their respective suits when not trumps. Example: the deuce of spade being second trump, when they are trumps, and the lowest cards when clubs, hearts, or diamonds are trumps, and so of the rest.

Punto is the ace of hearts or diamonds, which are above the king, and the fourth trump, when either of those suits are trumps, but are below the knave, and ace of diamonds or hearts, when they are not trumps. The two of hearts or diamonds is always superior to the three; the three to the four; the four to the five; and the five to the six; the six is only superior to the seven when it is not trumps; for when the seven is manille it is the second trump.

There are three matadores, viz., spadille, manille, and basto, whose privilege is, when the player has no other trumps but them, and trumps are led, he is not obliged to play them, but may play what card he thinks proper; provided, however, that the trump led is of an inferior value; but if spadille should be led, he that has manille or basto only is compelled to lead it, which is the case with basto in respect to manille, the superior matadore always forcing the inferior.

TERMS USED IN QUADRILLE.

To ask leave is to ask leave to play with a partner, by calling a king.

Basto-the ace of clubs, always the third best trump.

Bast is a penalty incurred by not winning