"As I've been a sayin', dis yer 's a providence and no mistake, as Missis has allers been a instructin' on us.

Thar's allers instruments ris up to do de Lord's will.

Now, if 't hadn't been for me today, she'd a been took a dozen times.

Warn't it I started off de hosses, dis yer mornin' and kept 'em chasin' till nigh dinner time?
And didn't I car Mas'r Haley night five miles out of de road, dis evening, or else he'd a come up with Lizy as easy as a dog arter a coon.

These yer 's all providences." "They are a kind of providences that you'll have to be pretty sparing of, Master Sam.