Cottar

Intelligent industry, the honest doing of daily work, with a sense that it must be done well, under penalties; the necessaries of life moderately provided for; and a sensible content with the situation of life in which men are born -- this through the week, and at the end of it the 'Cottar's Saturday

Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856

"You must come along in and have a cup of tea," young Cottar urged.

If Winter Comes 1925

Things began one day very shortly after the declaration of war when, passing the barracks on his way home, Sabre was accosted and taken into the Mess by Cottar, a subaltern of the Pinks.

If Winter Comes 1925

Slovens and incompetents raged against him; the weak-minded strove to lure him from the ways of justice; the small-minded -- yea, men whom Cottar believed would never do "things no fellow can do" -- imputed motives mean and circuitous to actions that he had not spent a thought upon; and he tasted injustice, and it made him very sick.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Rummy thing," said the adjutant, after Cottar had returned to his wilderness with twenty other devils worse than the first.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

But there were horses in the land-ponies at reasonable price; there was polo for such as could afford it; there were the disreputable remnants of a pack of hounds; and Cottar worried his way along without too much despair.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

And so, in summer, when he came back to the pavilion after a slow but eminently safe game, it mattered not whether he had made nothing or, as once happened, a hundred and three, the school shouted just the same, and women-folk who had come to look at the match looked at Cottar -- Cottar, major; "that's Cottar!"

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

A major of the new school backed this idea with enthusiasm, and he and Cottar accumulated a library of military works, and read and argued and disputed far into the nights.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

Cottar turned up six weeks later, on foot, with his pupils.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

Cottar was cantering across to polo, and he looked a very satisfactory figure of a man as he gave easily to the first excited bucks of his pony, and slipped over a low mud wall to the practice-ground.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900