War with the Newts

by Karel Čapek

That evening marked the start of Captain J. van Toch’s eccentricity.

The death-rate during transportation scarcely reaches 10 per cent.

All in all there developed a permanent and downright deadly enmity between dogs and Newts which did not diminish in the least and, if anything, was intensified and consolidated by the construction of partitions between them. Which is what usually happens, and not only with dogs.