`` but i am not going to kick up a fuss , and make difficulties for everyone and the poor sailors , who will be working all the storm , '' temeraire said , although he was sorry a moment later to have silenced himself a little too early : he would very much have preferred to have a proper meal , cooked through , but instead he could see a cow being hoisted out from the fore hatch , and the ordinary slaughtering-tubs were out on deck , even as the first spatters of rain came down and rattled in them tinnily .