the thought of the slender frame of a captive deer being harnessed to some easterners heavy sleigh brought prickles of indignation to my hot cheeks ; those sleigh-ers ought to have known better -- i had no doubt now that easterners were fiendsand i sincerely hoped , and enjoyed imagining them dashing through the snow and being promptly dashed into the side of a boulder when they plowed into a snow bank and broke their lily-white necks .