Question

Who was the owner of the cottage ?
In chapter the rattrap..

Answer 1

Answer:-

The owner of the cottage was a crofter.

Explanation:-

The Rattrap is a story about a rattrap seller who

leads a very poor life as his earnings are very low. He has to resort to thievery and begging to make both ends meet.

He is alone in this whole world and leads a miserable life. So he starts knitting up various kinds of thoughts. One of these thoughts is of supposing the whole world as a big rattrap. His views are that the world offers us various types of baits in the form of comforts of life. This in return traps us into the rattrap of the world and leads us to various types of miseries.