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According to the passage, Munro, before he became a writer, ----.

Hector Hugh Munro was born in Burma, the son of a
police inspector-general. His mother died when he was
two, and he was sent home to Scotland to live with
relatives. His formal education ended with grammar
school, but his father tutored him on extensive travels.
In 1893, his father got him a post with the Burma
police, but his delicate health forced his return to
Britain. There he took up a career in writing, and it was
while doing political sketches for The Westminster
Gazette that he adopted the pen- name of Saki. After
serving for a time as a foreign correspondent for The
Morning Post, he returned to London to devote himself
to the writing of stories and novels. When World War I
began, he enlisted as an ordinary soldier in the army
and was unfortunately killed in action in 1916.