the length

The longest long shot in the world. But it might just be. Quick, Tony, do you have a shovel?"

"A shovel? Why?"

"I've always been curious about pink and blue hydrangeas."

"Nothing special about that. Some people think they're different bushes, but they're not really. I mean you can get yourself pink and blue ones, but you can also change pink to blue by raising the pH in the soil, make it more acidic, or blue to pink by making the soil more alkaline and lowering the pH. They got stuff to make it more acidic, aluminum sulfate, I think they call it. Or you can put some iron filings in the soil, tin cans, even rusty nails and such. That'll change the color from pink to blue too."

"I know, Tony. That's why I want the shovel."

Tony fetched the tool from the garage, and King started to dig around the blue hydrangea. It didn't take long before his shovel clinked against something hard. And a short time later he pulled out the object.

"Nice source of iron," said King as he held up the rusty pistol.