Un raisin. — Some grapes

" Des raisins " might be said, but the French use the singular in préférence, as we do the word "fruit." "A bunch of grapes" is, " Une grappe de raisin ; " "A grape," " Un grain de raisin."

356. Se place en arrêt. — Makéflfc " point ;" or, Makes a " set."

357. Je vous en fais mon compliment. — I congratulate you on it.

358. Il est trop bon pour ne pas placer le remède à côté du mal. — This belief is also very common with us. Country people very frequently say that, wherever the rattlesnake is to be found, the plant grows which cures, or is thought to cure, the bite. In this particular instance they might also add, — and in many other places besides, — the White-flowering Prenanthes, which is the herb in question, being very common throughout New England.