jaimy 's talking about how fine it would be to be an officer on a man-of-war , and the others agree that there 's nothin ' better in the world than to be a man-of-war 's man , officer or seaman , but i speaks up with , `` would n't it be far better to have a merchant ship and you could get rich by taking stuff from a place what 's got a lot of that stuff and taking it to a place where they ai n't got a lot of that stuff and would be grateful for it ?