Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapter Twelve Summary

Having left the island for their own safety, Huck and Jim take their raft along the river, with Missouri on one side and Illinois on the other.
They travel in secrecy during the night, and in the daytime they tie the raft to the shoreline and cover it with branches and such so that no one will see as they pass.
Some nights, Huck lands at a nearby town to buy food or occasionally steal a chicken. His father, he says, told him that you might as well steal a chicken whenever you can, because if you don’t want it yourself, you can give it away!
He also said that stealing was really "borrowing," as long as you "intended" on giving it "back" sometime.
The widow, on the other hand, correctly identifies this as "stealing."
Jim thinks a compromise would be best; they should pick three things they won’t steal anymore, and everything else will be fine.
Shortly after, the pair comes across a wrecked steamship in the midst of a thunderstorm.
Huck wants to land and plunder, but Jim is hesitant. There may be a watchman on board, he says.
Still, Huck is insistent. Tom Sawyer wouldn’t be scared of a steamboat, he says, so why should they be?
This is evidently a convincing argument. They both amble on board, only to overhear three robbers, two of them preparing to kill the third man.
Jim skeeters off to the raft, but Huck inches closer to the voices to see what’s going on.
We get some more info: Jake Packard is the man with the gun; he’s trying to convince his buddy Bill to kill the third man, Jim Turner. It seems Jake is afraid Jim will "turn state’s evidence."
Jake has a better idea: instead of shooting Bill, they should plunder the rest of the steamboat and then wait for him to drown when the boat goes under. This way, they’ll have clean consciences!
Huck hustles out to Jim and tells him they should hurry and get the sheriff.
This would be a great idea, but the raft has broken loose in the storm and gone off down the river.

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