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W, Wapiti

Wapiti, a loanword for elk that reached French by way of English, names the letter, but the plate shows no elk at all. A boy peers between two playing cards pinched upright into a W, balanced on books with real Stahl and Hetzel titles, a joke for a letter neither French nor a card deck has much use for.