What starts the confusion in "The Night the Bed Fell"?

A. Burglars enter the narrator's aunt's house.
B. Briggs Beall stops breathing while he sleeps.
C. The cot the narrator is sleeping on collapses.
D. Gracie Shoaf throws her shoes down the hall.

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1933/07/08/my-life-and-hard-times-i-the-night-the-bed-fell

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Briggs Beall stops breathing while he sleeps.