私が小学校へ入ったとき、近所のチャボのよいおん鳥をかりてきて、しばらくいっしょにおきました。ひよこができたとき、おん鳥もいっしょに「コッコッコッ」といいながら、えさをやります。
**そのときの子どもはいま平の家にいます。平の家でもそのチャボはとてもはやかすのが上手だと喜んでいます。**
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What is a 平の家? Does 子ども refer to here? The chicks? Finally. .what does it mean to be とても はやかすの
This is a poorly-written essay with several grammar errors. (It's awful for an
average 11-year-old girl today, but this may have been written long ago when
education level was lower.) It's not difficult to guess the rough meaning of
each sentence, but some word usages are indeed puzzling even to native
speakers today. I'm pretty certain about 子ども, but I may be wrong about 平の家 and
はやかす.

  * 子ども certainly refers to the ひよこ, or the [Chabo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_bantam)'s chicken.
  * 平の家 is probably "Taira's house", i.e., the house owned by someone called 平. (Maybe the niece did not explain who 平 is?)
  * はやかす is not a common verb, but I guess it's a variant of [囃す](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%9B%83%E3%81%99), which is like "to make sounds in a way they amuse/excite people". In some dialects はやかす is a variant of 生やす, but 生やす doesn't make sense here.

Here is my understanding of the sentences:

> そのときの子どもはいま平の家にいます。  
>  The (Chabo's) child (I raised) at that time is now at Taira's house.
>
> 平の家でもそのチャボはとてもはやかすのが上手だと喜んでいます。  
>  Also at Taira's house, people are delighted that the Chabo is very good at
> singing.
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