Is there something almost Kipling to the rhythm of this beautiful line?

[02.063]  I’ll cook beautifully for you, a perfectly beautiful breakfast for you, if only you won’t have me for supper.”

Something like “Up jumped Nqua from his seat on the salt-flat and shouted “Go away!”

• 01.142 and cook everybody else’s wretched breakfast.
• 02.057 “And can yer cook ’em?” said Tom.
• 02.063 “And please don’t cook me,
• 02.063 I am a good cook myself,
• 02.063 and cook better than I cook,
• 02.063 and cook better than I cook,
• 02.063 I’ll cook beautifully for you,
• 03.024 “I can smell the wood-fires for the cooking.”
• 06.099 and the figures of the dwarves round it cooking
• 06.099 being used to having it delivered by the butcher all ready to cook.
• 08.092 and cooking,

Kipling, Rudyard, and Nicolas. Just so Stories. New York: Doubleday, 1952. Print.

I was a little surprised to learn that “barrel” is a comparatively common word, so I checked more closely – it is approximately the nine-thousandth most common word in the Project Gutenberg corpus.  It occurs mostly in Chapter Nine, of course.  Note that in Chapter One, it does not refer to food.

• 01.113 with a long barrel
• 02.043 Also there was a barrel of good drink at hand,
• 02.049 Bert and Tom went off to the barrel.
• 02.116 also one barrel of ale which was still full.
• 05.144 and to sneak behind a big barrel
• 09.001 Chapter IX BARRELS OUT OF BOND
• 09.018 There stood barrels,
• 09.018 and barrels, and barrels;
• 09.018 and barrels, and barrels;
• 09.019 Hiding behind one of the largest barrels
• 09.019 From Lake-town the barrels were brought up the Forest River.
• 09.020 When the barrels were empty
• 09.020 and out the barrels floated on the stream,
• 09.037 get the empty barrels
• 09.038 in the sides of the barrels,
• 09.048 they answered rolling the barrels to the opening.
• 09.050 So they sang as first one barrel
• 09.050 Some were barrels really empty,
• 09.051 in a barrel himself,
• 09.051 to the place where the barrels were collected.
• 09.052 so as to let out the barrels as soon as they were all afloat below.
• 09.054 Now the very last barrel
• 09.054 into the cold dark water with the barrel on top of him.
• 09.055 the barrel rolled round
• 09.055 for you cannot count friends that are all packed up in barrels.
• 09.056 even if he had managed to get astride his barrel,
• 09.059 the eddying current carried several barrels
• 09.059 up the side of his barrel
• 09.060 Before long the barrels broke free again
• 09.060 and the barrel was a good big one
• 09.061 On the shallow shore most of the barrels ran aground,
• 09.062 and pushed all the barrels together
• 09.062 He slipped from his barrel
• 09.064 They were making up a raft of barrels,
• 09.065 The barrels now all lashed together
• 10.004 shivering on the barrels,
• 10.009 As soon as the raft of barrels came
• 10.009 in the meanwhile the barrels were left afloat
• 10.010 First of all a barrel was cut loose by Bilbo
• 10.012 which were the right barrels.
• 10.040 about keys or barrels while the dwarves stayed
• 12.060 Maybe Barrel was your pony’s name;

Here are all the forms of “pot”, including searching for it as a verb and checking for “pottery”.  As a vessel for holding liquids or solids, it has both Germanic and Latin roots, but the etymology seems to be uncertain.  Oxford English Dictionary tells us:

The word in the Germanic and Romance languages and in post-classical Latin perhaps ultimately shows a loanword from a pre-Celtic language (perhaps Illyrian or perhaps a non-Indo-European substratal language), although a number of other etymologies have also been suggested.

Welsh pot (15th cent.), Irish pota (1475), and Scottish Gaelic poit are all apparently < (earlier than) English.

Please, fellow scholars, when you are charting and discussing “pot” note that sometimes pots carry food and other times they are for gold.

• 02.001 Nearly every pot
• 02.086 So they got a great black pot,
• 02.113 to pots full of gold coins standing
• 02.116 So they carried out the pots of coins,
• 02.117 and carried away the pots of gold,
• 06.074 Roast ’em alive, or stew them in a pot;
• 07.126 and red earthenware pots of honey,
• 12.011 like the noise of a large pot galloping on the fire,

“pot, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2016. Web. 12 May 2016.

Like “fat”, most instances of “bone” don’t seem to be about food – yet some are.  You be the judge as you are tracking the food mentions in The Hobbit!

• 01.065 Leave the bones on the bedroom mat!
• 02.059 and boned.”
• 02.113 There were bones on the floor
• 05.054 the cat has the bones’ that of course is the answer,
• 05.087 He still had a bone or two left to gnaw,
• 06.078 fat melts, and bones black
• 08.110 and leave your bones
• 12.091 in my bones that this place will be attacked again.
• 13.046 and bones were upon the floor
• 14.043 There for ages his huge bones could be seen
• 18.021 in his bones for the homeward journey.
• 19.002 His bones are now crumbled;