The word 'Cuyler' means a delver, or one who digs underground.

You must be a Dutchman." I told him that my ancestors had come over from Holland a couple of centuries ago, and I was proud of my lineage; for my grandfather, Glen Cuyler, was a descendant of Hendrick Cuyler, one of the early Dutch settlers of Albany, who came there in 1667.

"Ah," said he, "the Dootch are the brawvest people of modern times.

The world has been rinnin' after a red rag of a Frenchman; but he was nothing to William the Silent.

When Pheelip of Spain sent his Duke of Alva to squelch those Dutchmen they joost squelched him like a rotten egg--aye, _they did_." I asked him why he didn't visit America, and told him that I had observed his name registered at Ambleside, on Lake Windermere.