HIS FATHER WAS A DOCTOR. HIS FATHER DIED (46) _________ HE WAS A...

1862. His father was a doctor. His father died (46) _________ he was a small boy. After finishing school, he worked (47) _________ a secretary in his uncle’s chemist shop for 5 years. Then he went to Texas because he wanted to see new places. During that time, he worked in an office and then in a small bank. He became (48) _________ in literature. He married and lived happily with his wife and daughter but his happiness didn’t last long. One day, a thousand dollar was stolen at the bank (49) _________ he worked. He was put into prison (50) _________ he had not taken money. At that time, his wife died to get some money as present for his daughter on Christmas Day, in prison he wrote the story “Whistling Dick’s Christmas Present” in 1899. He signed under the penname “O’ Henry”. After the prisonment in 1901 he continued writing. He died in 1910.