"Well, then, you shall order another sign-frame of the
smith; you shall paint six physicians, and write underneath
`Aux Medici' which makes a very pretty play upon words."

"Six physicians! impossible! And the composition?" cried
Pittrino.

"That is your business -- but so it shall be -- I insist
upon it -- it must be so -- my macaroni is burning."

This reasoning was peremptory -- Pittrino obeyed. He
composed the sign of six physicians, with the legend; the
echevin applauded and authorized it.

The sign produced an extravagant success in the city, which
proves that poetry has always been in the wrong, before
citizens, as Pittrino said.

Cropole, to make amends to his painter-in-ordinary, hung up
the nymphs of the preceding sign in his bedroom, which made
Madame Cropole blush every time she looked at it, when she
was undressing at night.

This is the way in which the pointed-gable house got a sign;
and this is how the hostelry of the Medici, making a
fortune, was found to be enlarged by a quarter, as we have
described. And this is how there was at Blois a hostelry of
that name, and had for painter-in-ordinary Master Pittrino.