The Pardner gives sutble hints to his true intent in the prolouge before his story. "Once dead what matter how their souls may fare? They can go blackberrying, for all I care! . . ." (166) then he goes on to say “And thus I preach against the very vice I make my living out of—avarice." (166) This shows that he does not care about the people who repent, he only sees them as dollar sighns. His tale ends with three men who dead after fihghing over a pile of gold. To put it short the moral is "more money more problems" The pardner knows of this first hand, wich is why he is so good at effectivily telling this story. After telling one of his storys he gets people to "repent their sins" by saing somepthing like "I've been their two my friend" wich
