What is cattle rustling?

Famous quotes containing the words cattle and/or rustling:

    “The cattle are grazing,
    Their heads never raising;
    There are forty feeding like one!”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
    A wind that follows fast
    And fills the white and rustling sail
    And bends the gallant mast;”
    —Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)