He bethought him of certain meals his mother had cooked at home, in which those dishes of which he was particularly fond had occupied prominent positions.

He saw the spread table.

The pine walls of the kitchen were glowing in the warm light from the stove.

Too, he remembered how he and his companions used to go from the schoolhouse to the bank of a shaded pool.

He saw his clothes in disorderly array upon the grass of the bank.