The picnic party

The Lame Girl.
RIVERDALE STORY BOOKS THE PICNIC PARTY Boston, Lee & Shepard.
The Riverdale Books.
A STORY FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
BY OLIVER OPTIC, AUTHOR OF “THE BOAT CLUB,” “ALL ABOARD,” “NOW OR NEVER,” “TRY AGAIN,” “POOR AND PROUD,” “LITTLE BY LITTLE,” &c.
BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, (SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.) 1871.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by WILLIAM T. ADAMS. In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ELECTROTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
THE PICNIC PARTY.
During the summer vacation, one year, Josephine and Edward Brown spent a month with Flora Lee and her brother. The visitors were distant relations, and lived in the city of New York.
Josephine was a pretty little girl, but she had a very bad habit which made for her a great many enemies. It is a common fault, not only among children, but among grown-up people, and which often makes others dislike them.
My readers shall see this fault for themselves, as the story advances, and I hope they will understand and avoid it.
Perhaps Josephine was not so much to blame as her parents for this bad habit. I am sure she did not understand, and did not know, why her companions soon took a dislike to her.