she had a feeling that the final line was something in the way of `` and some hairy bacon , '' but that might have been another song altogether , so she stopped and instead she sang him the one about the man in the moon who came down too soon , and after that she sang , in her warm country voice , a more recent song about a lad who put in his thumb and pulled out a plum , and she had just started a long ballad about a young country gentleman whose girlfriend had , for no particular reason , poisoned him with a dish of spotted eels , when silas came around the side of the chapel , carrying a cardboard box .