The old dame piked for the chigrel nook For gorms for her ball belljeemer; The gorms had shied, the nook was strung, And the ball belljeemer had neemer.
NEITHER doubletalk nor a long-lost quote from Lewis Carroll, that strange verse is really an old familiar nursery rhyme. Its translation, and the history of its colorful but dying language, is reported this week by Los Angeles Correspondent Timothy Tyler. See THE NATION: "Harpin' Boont in Boonville."
Before he went to work on this week's cover story, TIME Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer made a point of meeting his subjectsMia Farrow and Dustin Hoffman. "No matter...
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