THE CROSS ROAD.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

  Two weary travellers were seen bending their way along a dim and narrow road that wound its course through a country but thinly inhabited, along the side of a rugged barren mountain, which towared away high up in the heavens, and around whose top the threatening mists bung heavily, and were joining with an black mass of thunder clouds that were rising up in the west, and looked, frowning, down upon all beneath--upon the edge of which the lightning already sported, now darting in a zig-zag direction, and then gleaming forth in an unbroken chain of light, followed by peals of deep-toned thunder that burst upon the hill and rolled down the valley, dying suddenly away in the distance.