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"Hay Fever" 1917
From: The Quebec Anthology
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"La fièvre des foins," translated by Wayne Grady as "Hay Fever," was first published in 1917, and is taken here from Clapin’s Contes et nouvelles, a collection of his short fiction that appeared in 1980. It is an extremely humorous story, with the kind of gentle, rural charm that is nonetheless sly and somewhat satirical: consider, for example, that the story was first published in the 52nd edition of the Montreal annual Almanack Rolland, and that its plot turns, in part, on the unreliability of almanacs.
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Sylva Clapin
Sylva Clapin was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, on July 15, 1853, and studied at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe until 1873, when he joined the United States Navy and served aboard the Kansas. He returned to Saint-Hyacinthe to become the village librarian, to run a bookshop and a music store, and to edit the Courrier de St-Hyacinthe. Before long, however, he was off again: to London and Paris in 1879, and to Montreal in 1880, where he began writing for Le Monde, Le Canadien, and L 'Électeur. He published his first
