John: I'll go in search of something to stop it, sir. This bit of a board I brought is too unshapely.
Mineog: Two columns of the Tribune as empty yet as anything you could see. I had them kept free for the Bishop's speech and he didn't come after.
Hazel: That's the same cause has left myself with so wide a gap.
Mineog: In the years past there used always to be something happening such as famines, or the invention of printing. The whole world has got very slack.
Hazel: You are a better hand than what I am at filling odd spaces would be left bare. It is often I think the news you put out comes partly from your own brain, and the prophecies you lay down about the weather and the crops.
Mineog: Ah, I might stick in a bit of invention sometimes, when I'm put to the pin of my collar.
Hazel: I might maybe make an attack on the Tribune for that.
Mineog: Ah, what is it but a white sin. Sure it tells every person the same thing. It doesn't tell many lies, it goes somewhere a near it.
Hazel: I spent a good while this evening searching through the shelves of the press I have in the office. I write an article an odd time, when there is nothing doing, that might come handy in a hurry.
Mineog: So have I a press of the sort, and shelves in it. I am after going through them to-day.