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 State Fair Triathlon – part one
州慶鐵人三項競賽（上）
Mark and Kathleen were walking around at the State Fair when they saw a poster for a special competition — the State Fair Triathlon.
“It says here that if you beat the pros in three contests, you win $1,000,” Kathleen said.
“What are the three contests?” Mark asked.
“Hot dog eating, mud diving and wood chopping.”
“I bet I could do well in all of those. I’m going to give it a shot,” Mark said.
They walked over to the contest grounds. First Mark had to face a world champion hot dog eater.
“You have five minutes to scarf down as many hot dogs as you can,” the judge said. “Ready… Go!”
The champion hot dog eater began eating. Kathleen had never seen anybody eat that fast, until she looked over at Mark. He was using his trunk like a straw to suck up hot dogs. Soon he had eaten all of his hot dogs and began eating his opponent’s.
“The winner!” the judge announced.
Next Mark went to the mud diving pit. It was a big pit full of muddy water.
“Whoever has the best dive wins,” the judge said. “And you get extra points for splash.”
Mark’s opponent was a fat pig who did a graceful swan dive into the pool.
“I know I can beat that,” he said… (MICHAEL KEARNEY, STAFF WRITER)
馬克和凱薩琳在州慶園遊會上看到一項特殊競賽──州慶鐵人三項的海報。
凱薩琳說：「海報上寫著，如果在三項比賽中打敗職業選手，就可以贏得一千元耶。」
馬克說：「是哪三項比賽？」
「吃熱狗、跳泥漿和砍木頭大賽。」
馬克說：「我敢說我每項都很在行，所以我要去試試看。」
他們走向比賽場地，馬克第一個挑戰的是世界吃熱狗大賽冠軍。
裁判說：「你們要在五分鐘內，盡可能地吃下熱狗。預備…開始！」
吃熱狗冠軍開始吃了，凱薩琳從沒看過吃東西那麼快的人；然後她望向馬克，馬克把他的象鼻當作吸管一樣地吸起熱狗，他很快就吃光他面前所有的熱狗，甚至開始吃起對手的熱狗。
裁判宣佈：「贏家在此！」
接著，馬克走向跳泥漿賽的泥坑，這個大坑裡面滿是泥水。
評審說：「跳得最好的人就是今天的贏家，而且濺起水花還可以得到額外的分數。」
馬克的對手是一隻肥豬，他完成了一個優雅的燕式跳水動作。
馬克說：「我知道我可以勝過他」...
（翻譯：袁星塵）
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