The President of the Guild of Engravers, Carney sets up the Ankh-Morpork Inquirer across the street from the Ankh-Morpork Times with the express purpose of putting the latter out of business. He goes to school with the Times' associate editor, Sacharissa Cripslock, but she denies that they had played together. He has chased her and she has hit him over the head with a wooden cow. After the Times shed burns down, Sacharissa pulls a pistol bow on Carney and using foul language, demands the loan of a press for an hour to get a special edition out.