"And had old Tom been doing a good job on the graves?"
He must be trying to help us catch old Tom!
Old Tom showed the end of the rope which remained in his hand.
Going to work for old Tom was one of the best things I ever did in my life.
Old Tom died in 1887, and the main photograph was taken in 1924.
However, I must give old Tom at the group his due.
For a time after they went away to the South, old Tom tried to run the place, but he was not successful.
The old Tom would have taken all the credit.
Old Tom then climbs up the chimney and is never seen again.
The old Tom would have seen them as nothing more than a vehicle for his own adulation.