Meet Kathleen the mouse and Mark the elephant.
Kathleen is very brave and likes adventure, but Mark is very shy and scared of many things. But friends stay together, so Mark follows Kathleen
wherever she goes. Sometimes they get into some very sticky situations.
見見老鼠凱薩琳和大象馬克。凱薩琳非常勇敢又喜歡冒險，但馬克的個性十分害羞，對許多事情都感到害怕。不過，朋友都喜歡黏在一塊兒，所以凱薩琳走到哪兒，馬克就會跟到哪兒。有時候，他們也會碰上非常棘手的情況...
The gray-faced bandit 灰面大盜
One day Kathleen went to the post office to mail an important letter. She looked over at a bulletin board while she was waiting in line and saw a picture of an elephant.
"That looks just like Mark," she said.
Kathleen went and took a closer look. It was Larry Long Trunk, a notorious elephant who was wanted for robbing three banks down south.
"I'll have to tell Mark about this," she said.
Meanwhile, Mark woke up and looked in the refrigerator. He was very hungry, but there was no food left. Mark thought about waiting for Kathleen to go get breakfast with her, but then his stomach started growling.
"I better go get breakfast right away," he said.
The evening before Mark had spent all of his money at the rodeo, so on his way to the restaurant, Mark stopped at the bank. When it was his turn, he went to the counter to make a withdrawal.
"How may I help you," the bank teller said, as she pushed a button under the desk.
"I'd like to make a withdrawal," Mark said.
Suddenly Mark felt something metal touching his back. It was the security guard's gun! And Mark heard sirens outside…
(Michael Kearney, Staff Writer)
某天，凱薩琳到郵局去寄一封重要信件。排隊等候時，她看了看佈告欄，發現上頭有張大象的照片。
「看起來好像馬克喔，」她說。
凱薩琳於是上前去看個清楚。原來是惡名昭彰的長鼻象賴瑞，因為在南部搶了三家銀行而遭警方通緝。
「我得告訴馬克這件事，」她說。
同一時間，剛起床的馬克正在看冰箱裡有什麼東西。飢腸轆轆的他發現冰箱裡空無一物。馬克想等凱薩琳一起去吃早餐，可是他的肚子已經開始咕嚕咕嚕叫了。
「我最好立刻去吃早餐，」他說。
因為在馬術競技會上花光了所有的錢，所以在前往餐廳的途中，馬克先去了銀行。等輪到他時，他走到櫃檯要提款。
「有什麼能為您效勞的嗎？」女行員一面說，一面按下桌下的按鈕。
「我想要提款，」馬克說。
忽然，馬克覺得有個金屬物頂住他的背。那是保全人員的槍！接著馬克就聽到外面傳來一陣警笛聲...（翻譯：林倩如）
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