There was a dancing floor, none too smooth.
There were long verandahs on three sides.

That on the south side was built on piles' people ate and drank there in the summer; beneath it the water swished and gurgled when the tide was in.
The townspeople of Fairport, or the more respectable ones, kept away from Morris's, summer and winter.

Summer transients, inhabitants of the bungalows during the bathing season, patronized the place.

But most of the patronage at all seasons seemed to consist of automobile parties from the city; people apparently drawn from all classes, or eluding definite classification entirely.

In the bleakest season there was always a little stir of dubious activity about Morris's.