My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my  infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit  than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
I  give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his  tombstone and my sister - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.  As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of  either of them...




 




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