This remarkable cartoon recalls one of many late night affrays between troubadours Frederic Mellen, Seth Paine, A.H. Jenks, artist H.T. Harris, and various constables, citizens and sailors, near Portland's St. Paul's Church. In the 1830s, young college students, artists, and friends spent the wee hours singing in front of houses until they were paid to go away. According to the Eastern Argus of August, 1836, "A Correspondent who signs himself Ben Pump complains of the serenades of the Night Band, and expresses a willingness to turn out and help put its members in a horse pond. We have no objections."