Yardil by Rosanne Hawke

Once upon a time there lived a girl. She wanted a snow leopard. But her dad didn't want one. One day when she had finished helping her sister make flour she went into the mountains. She went on and on. Then she heard a crying sound. She picked up her courage to go further. Then she saw a baby snow leopard caught in a bush. She said "let me help". She rushed forward to help the snow leopard. She went home to show her mother. The other people said "how will we protect the goats?" But her dad said "let her be, because I know a story of a leopard and there was a reason for it coming."

One day she was cleaning the rice at the river. Then she slipped and fell into the water. The snow leopard ran up and down. Her dad saw the snow leopard. He was just in time to save her.

That night, she head another same kind of cry. She said, "that is your mother." She let the snow leopard got to his mother.

The picture is of the snow leopard when she was in the water. He was worried about her.