Possible Clues:

• Rat, so to speak
• Gossip about the story about the teetotaller
• Get in trouble, in a way, with 'on'
• Rat someone out
• Times put in story that's just gossip
• Be a stoolie
• That story about the teetotaller is just gossip
• Gossip and rubbish the French? About time
• That story about a teetotaller is only gossip
• In the story, the teetotaller is one for gossip