Possible Clues:

• Chat leisurely
• Jack Sprat wouldn't gossip
• Keep arguing, as Mrs Sprat does
• Hat we fetch out to keep the discussion going
• Gossip
• Mrs Sprat liked to talk
• Jack Sprat would never talk like this
• Chat leisurely (colloq.), hatchet few (anag.)
• Have a gabfest
• Jack Sprat's wife would always gossip