one of the leg joints was all the rest which she could manage , despite her best efforts , and then she collapsed into a stupor to their general and profound gratitude ; temeraire devoured the rest of his own cow while gong su crudely and quickly butchered the remnants of the second and packed it away in his pots ; and they were back aloft in some twenty minutes , with the dragonet now lying heavy and asleep in granby 's arms , quite dead to all the world .