although it made for tedious work to take out each piece and inspect it and dry it again , temeraire could not be sorry in the least , as he and iskierka and caesar and kulingile and tharunka might all sit at the edge of the pavilion and watch each lovely glowing piece come out , to be wiped and set out upon cloths upon the mowed grassy verge , in the sunlight , and there were hundreds and hundreds of the pieces to be seen .