Front matter
Reading edition
E-text prepared by Al Haines
Transcriber's note:
"Bartimeus" is the pseudonym of Captain Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie, R.N.
THE LONG TRICK
by
"BARTIMEUS"
Author of "A Tall Ship," "Naval Occasions," etc.
"Much of what you have done, as far as the public eye is concerned, may almost be said to have been done in the twilight."—Extract from address delivered by the Prime Minister on board the Fleet Flagship, Aug., 1915.
Cassell and Company, Ltd London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
First Published. October 1917. Reprinted (Twice) October 1917, November 1917.
TO one CHUNKS Who, in moments of frenzy, is called HUNKS and answers readily to TUNKS, TINKS or TONKS, This Book is INSCRIBED