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Hector Hugh Munro (also known as H.H. Munro) used the pseudonym "Saki" to write several well-known short stories that mocked Edwardian English society and customs. Munro was born in Akyab, Burma (now Sittwe) on December 18, 1870, to Charles Augustus Munro and Mary Frances Mercer (Byrne 5). He was the youngest of three children. He had one sister, Ethel, and an older brother, Charles. Shortly after his birth, his mother Mary returned to her home in England to give birth to her fourth child, leaving her other three children in Burma with her husband. While in England, a loose cow charged at Mary while she was walking on a country road. The incident ultimately resulted in her miscarriage...