This week we have found more and more bugs squashed in the pages of the court records. Cannot decide if they are court clerks who ran afoul of the system and some wicked witch somewhere turned them into bugs because the were so slow with their work, or were they really diligent bugs in the system? this week I think we counted 6 bugs and 1 spider smashed in the leaves of the books. Have no way of knowing how long they have been there but they were perfeclty preserved - that is what happens in a climate controlled atmosphere. the spider was a very small one and each of his little legs were intact and he looked so tiny there on the page. Other insects were flies. It would be interesting to find out just how they got there. Were they on the page when it was slammed shut in the court house and remained so until we digitized the pages? Well, anyway, the researchers who look at the digitized images will be as equally amused as we were when they stumble upon the little creatures preserved in the pages of history.
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