is Xantippe, who's having her say,

His prurient plots pained Wesley and Watts,

And frightening the army of Xerxes away.




is for Young, the great Mormon saint,

Who thinks little Yum Yum and Yvette so quaint,

He has to be instantly held in restraint.




is for Zola, presenting La Terre

To Zenobia the brave and Zuleika the fair,

Whose blushes they artfully conceal with their hair.

This Alphabet of Celebrities written & pictured by Oliver Herford with a border & initial letters by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and end papers & cover design by E. B. Bird is printed for Small Maynard & Company at the Heintzemann Press in Boston U. S. A. in the month of November
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