It was rather large, but it would have been handy.

Whenever we wanted to cook anything, we could have used the case for a stew-pan, or we could have b'iled eggs in the same, and when we started our hotel at New Boston, it would have done for a gong.
It was rather tiresome to wind up nights, as the key didn't give you much leverage, and if your hold happened to slip, you was likely to fall down and hurt yersilf.

But here we are, as Jimmy O'Donovan said when he j'ined his father and mother in jail.".