Hansel And Gretel And The Broken Kingdom- Cooperation. Pg 178 & 179. An hour later they returned. "So," Hansel said. "dragons love treasure, right," "At least in storybooks," Gretel added. Their parents looked at each other and shrugged. "I guess," the king replied. "Okay, lets say they do," Hansel said. "We have a cartload of golden apples in the stable right now." Okay, so we take the cart of apples out to a clearing forest," Hansel said. "We open it up." Gretel cut in. "so the dragon can see it. Hopefully, he'll be attracted to the gold."