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Lexington Apr. 12th 1867.

On the evening of March 22nd as we were [strikethrough] as we were [/strikethrough] conducting our school our attention was arrested by the appearance of numbers of men at the windows: some with faces blackened, some with handkerchiefs over their faces & some with masks.  They came about eight o'clock & left about ten (P.M.) & through all the exercises tried to divert the school from their books, & annoy us by making grimaces, beckoning & making [strikethrough] sings [/strikethrough] signs to the scholars, talking among themselves, drumming on the windows, opening and shutting the door & windows, pulling out whatever they could reach & throwing dirt & lighted matches.

One aimed a pistol at one of the boys, who was standing near a window hearing a class read, but his hand was knocked away by someone of the party, during the closing exercises they hooted & swore, groaned & hissed, hurrahed for "Jeff Davis" &c.  but as they had often visited & always left at the close, the school started to go out when the boy (at whom the pistol was aimed)