FOREWORD DEAR N AND M,

CONTENTS FOREWORD CHAPTER 1. BACK FROM THE LAND 2. THE "NAVY

NOTE

THE LONG TRICK CHAPTER I BACK FROM THE LAND

CHAPTER II THE "NAVY SPECIAL"

CHAPTER III ULTIMA THULE

CHAPTER IV WAR BABIES

CHAPTER V UNCLE BILL

CHAPTER VI WET BOBS

CHAPTER VII CARRYING ON

CHAPTER VIII "ARMA VIRUMQUE . . . "

CHAPTER IX "SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES"

CHAPTER X THE BATTLE OF THE MIST

CHAPTER XI THE AFTERMATH

CHAPTER XII "GOOD HUNTING"

CHAPTER XIII SPELL-O!

CHAPTER XIV INTO THE WAY OF PEACE

Title: The Long Trick

Author: Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

Language: English

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.

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