On the paper they used to say, 'Kathleen would sacrifice her best friend if by doing it she could scoop the other papers.'" "What do you mean by 'scoop the other papers' ?" queried Elfreda interestedly.
"Why, to get ahead of them with a story," explained Kathleen.

"Suppose I found out an important piece of news that no one else knew.

If I gave it to my paper and it appeared in it before any other newspaper got hold of it then that would be a scoop." "Oh, yes, I see," returned Elfreda.

"Then a scoop might be news about anything." "Exactly," nodded Kathleen.

"The harder the news is to get, the better story it makes.