The Outlaw of the Broads is a book which Dorothea is writing in Coot Club, Pigeon Post, and The Big Six. * Dorothea tried to write some of the new book that had seemed almost half done when she had put down a list of its chapter headings ... The Secret Broad, The Outlaw in the Reeds, The Black Coot’s Feather, The Bittern’s Warning, and so on. What a book it was to be, and yet, somehow, the first chapter had ended after a paragraph or two, and the second would not go beyond the first gorgeous sentence: "Parting the reeds with stealthy, silent hand, the outlaw peered into the gathering dusk". Away, across the dark water" ... Well, what was it that he saw? (CC11). * Dot reads to Titty while the well is being dug how the Outlaw of the Broads hid in the reeds and slipped down river under