Judy commemorated the suit incident in the following verse, depicting Burns making figure eights on the ice:
’Ave ye seen Johnny Burns
Strikin’ figgers on the hice?
’Ave ye seen his twists and turns?—
Sure, an’ can’t he do it nice!
In his Tussaud’s suit of navy blue
’N’ his famous old straw hat,
With his Hacmes ’n’ his knobstick too,
A reg’lar ’ristocrat!
A contrast to Mr. Burns, though possibly of similar socialistic opinions, was Mr. George Bernard Shaw, whom I long wanted to sit to me.