The King of The Copper Mountains Quotes

“It concerns the failing health of an elderly king who is kept alive by stories told by visiting animals.”

“The Wonder Doctor’s quest, full of pitfalls, was perilous at best. Would he make it back to the castle, with the Golden Speedwell, in time to save King ...

“At the end of his thousand-year reign of the Copper Mountains, old King Mansolain is tired and his heart is slowing down.”

“When his attendant, the Hare, consults The Wonder Doctor, he is told he must keep the King engaged in life by telling him a story every night until the Doctor can find a cure.”

“The search is on for a nightly story more wonderful than the last, and one by one the kingdom’s inhabitants arrive with theirs, the ferocious Wolf, the lovesick Donkey, the fire-breathing three-headed Dragon. ”

“Last to arrive is the Dwarf, with four ancient books and a prophecy that the King will live for another thousand years – but only if the Wonder Doctor returns in time.”

“The wolf came to a halt and pricked up his ears. There was no longer any sound of trampling hoofs, no snorting, no cracking of branches. Wast he buffalo hiding?”

“For more than a thousand years already he had reigned over all the animals and dwarfs, and over the dragons too while they were still in existence. But as nowadays he never went out, there was scarcely anyone left who knew him.”

“His servants had died one after the other until only the hare remained. So these two lived quietly together in the copper castle until the king began to cough so badly that his beard shoos and the hare grew very anxious.”

“The next morning the king felt so much better he took a little stroll with the wolf in the crystal room of the castle. The san shone in and lighted up the pots of geraniums the hare thad arranged there.”

“One day the squirrel Lesp called his wife and children together and said: ‘We are going to move to a new home.’ ‘Where to, Father Lesp?’ they asked. ‘To the other side of the plain,’ Lesp said. ‘The trees are better over there.”